5th Jan, 2008, 1:49am
Why would you do that?
I indulged myself recently and obtained a new MacBook, which I’ve spent the last few days loading up with the usual suspects (Firefox) as well as getting acquainted with some new tools (Mail.app).
I use Foxmarks to keep my bookmarks in order, with a neat toolbar of my regular sites, I noticed that in FF on OSX, all my toolbar favicon images were missing (several of my bookmarks on the Personal Toolbar have no text, so just the Icon shows up on my other machines (XP & Ubuntu/Linux))
A bit of research and playing found this: http://blog.rbenson.info/tech/firefox-hide-bookmark-toolbar-icons.html
Now this describes exactly how to recreate my problem (Hide the Icons!) I wanted to undo this (guessing that this was just a daft default in the OSX FF build), a bit more poking & research suggested that I wanted to make my userChrome.css to look like this:
/* Hide bookmark icons in the Personal Toolbar */
toolbarbutton.bookmark-item > .toolbarbutton-icon {
display: inline !important; }
And he presto, things are back to normal, I have a neat toolbar with icons for the sites.
But why would you set the default to hide them?
3 Comments »
Ryan B on 09 Apr 2008 at 11:42am #
Thanks for the trackback. To answer your question: I wanted to clear up space, at the time I originally wrote the post, my bookmarks were 75-80% across the page. So seeing that so much was being used, which was made up of blank favicons mainly, I decided to see if I could remove them. When I did, that 75-80% dropped to 45-50% use.
simonm on 09 Apr 2008 at 12:01pm #
Thanks Ryan, without your post I wouldn’t have been able to fix my problem, we were trying to do the same thing by different methods, you are saving space by dropping the favicons, I’m saving space by not using text & relying on the favicons. I still don’t really understand why the default in FF/OSX is to hide the favicons.
Ryan B on 10 Apr 2008 at 1:31am #
I can’t answer that, I am assuming that since Safari doesn’t use them, Mozilla decided to give OSX FF users the same feel?