Suggestion: Firefox bookmark favicons with optional text
At the moment with bookmarks in Firefox, when I have only one unique favicon in the bookmarks bar, I don't need accompanying text. However, when I have multiple favicons that are the same, e.g. Github pages, I need a separate text for the Favicon. My setting is for favicons with text. Firefox will not allow me to enter no text and save a bookmark, so in cases where I save a unique favicon, I just fudge it with a pipe "|" character. It would be good if you could save a bookmark without having to enter text, with the favicon + text setting.
Izabrano rješenje
Right click a favicon that has the text as well. Click Properties. Highlight the text in the Name window and then delete the text. Click Save. Text will now be gone.
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I believe I suggested this through the Suggestion Box before, but I thought it would be good to follow up here with a public suggestion.
This is not possible because the places.sqlite database can't have empty cells.
If this is for bookmarks on the Bookmarks Toolbar then it would be possible to hide a text label for specific cases with code in userChrome.css in the chrome folder in the profile folder.
Add code to the userChrome.css file below the default @namespace line.
You need to replace label="Bookmark" to the name of the bookmark you want to hide.
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */
#personal-bookmarks .bookmark-item[label="Bookmark"] .toolbarbutton-text {display:none!important}
You need to create the chrome folder (lowercase) in the <xxxxxxxx>.default profile folder if this folder doesn't exist.
- use a plain text editor to create a (new) file in the chrome folder (file name is case sensitive)
- paste the code in the file in the editor window
- make sure the userChrome.css file starts with the default @namespace line
- make sure you do not have a double .css.css file extension (.css.css) if it is still not working
You need to close and restart Firefox when you create or modify the userChrome.css file.
This looks like a solution, but how many people are going to be bothered to do all this? Wouldn't it be better to automate as much of it as possible? It looks like quite a bit of work just to make my bookmarks toolbar look more compact and neater. E.g. right click the bookmark, click hide text, the rest of the steps at a glance looks like they can be automated.
Are you wanting a unique favicon to appear on the bookmarks bar without the accompanying text (like the attached)?
Yes, that's right, thanks. Then other non-unique ones like multiple bookmarked GitHub pages to be with text, like some of your favicons have.
Odabrano rješenje
Right click a favicon that has the text as well. Click Properties. Highlight the text in the Name window and then delete the text. Click Save. Text will now be gone.
Awesome, thanks, that works! I don't think I could do this before, has there been an update?
And I can add a new bookmark as well without any text. I definitely couldn't do that before.