Recent answers to How do I get rid of the "Recently Bookmarked" section in my bookmarks toolbar?https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/11206242016-09-24T22:46:04-07:001. Type “about:config” in the Address Bar & accept the warranty warning…
2. Type recentlyBookmar2016-09-24T22:46:04-07:00JRam125https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624?page=2#answer-920668<p>1. Type “<strong>about:config</strong>” in the Address Bar &amp; accept the warranty warning…
2. Type <em>recentlyBookmarked</em>
3. Toggle Value “<strong>browser.bookmarks.showRecentlyBookmarked</strong>” to <strong>FALSE</strong>
…worked sweetly for me!!!!
</p>David S. said
jscher2000 said
Hi David S., I think on Mac right-click is replaced by Ctrl+click a2016-09-24T02:31:33-07:00user99548https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624?page=2#answer-920328<p><em>David S. <a href="#answer-919254" rel="nofollow">said</a></em>
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Hi David S., I think on Mac <strong>right-click</strong> is replaced by <strong>Ctrl+click</strong> and if someone would give me a Mac I would be happy to test that myself.
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<p>On a Mac right-clicking and ctrl-clicking do exactly the same thing (ctrl-click is a hangover from the olden days of single-button mice).
</p><p>Yeah, I've done more testing and that's definitely it - on a Mac you have to open the list of bookmarks using the Bookmarks "star" tool in the toolbar, right click on the gray text in there and that pops up the menu option to hide recently bookmarked. If you right-click on the gray text from the app's normal Bookmarks menu nothing happens. Sigh.
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<p>I have been trying to hide recently for 1 hour, this is the only solution that worked Thanks Gord
</p>neRok00 said
What options are in that right click menu on mac David S.? Mine has options such as n2016-09-22T09:12:19-07:00dshanahhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624?page=2#answer-919642<p><em>neRok00 <a href="#answer-919272" rel="nofollow">said</a></em>
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What options are in that right click menu on mac David S.? Mine has options such as new seperator, and open in new tab. Perhaps mac doesn't allow firefox to change the right click menu of such a menu, and you don't have any of these options either?
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<p>Right-clicking in the Bookmarks menu acts like a left-click, AFAIK this is standard behaviour for all app menus on a Mac. That's why this whole right-click trick only works on a Mac if you use the bookmarks star-thingy in the Firefox toolbar.
</p>David S. disse
1. Type "about:config" in address bar. Tell it you'll be careful, etc.
2. Search f2016-09-21T23:14:19-07:00FelipeMarchttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624?page=2#answer-919394<p><em>David S. <a href="#answer-918784" rel="nofollow">disse</a></em>
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1. Type "about:config" in address bar. Tell it you'll be careful, etc.
2. Search for "browser.bookmarks.showRecentlyBookmarked" in the config parameters and then double-click on it's "Value" field so it switches from "true" to "false".
3. There is no step 3.
N.B. The above works with FF 49.0, don't know if it's applicable to earlier versions or not.
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<p>This worked flawlessly! Yet another pointless feature added to Firefox that no one asked for.
</p>Further to what David S. has discovered, using win 7 x64 and firefox 49.0, I have opened the bookmar2016-09-21T12:28:10-07:00neRok00https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-919272<p>Further to what David S. has discovered, using win 7 x64 and firefox 49.0, I have opened the bookmark menu (after pressing the alt key to make it appear) and can confirm that the hide/show recently bookmarked option is present in that right click menu also.
</p><p>What options are in that right click menu on mac David S.? Mine has options such as new seperator, and open in new tab. Perhaps mac doesn't allow firefox to change the right click menu of such a menu, and you don't have any of these options either?
</p>jscher2000 said
Hi David S., I think on Mac right-click is replaced by Ctrl+click and if someone w2016-09-21T11:55:02-07:00dshanahhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-919254<p><em>jscher2000 <a href="#answer-919250" rel="nofollow">said</a></em>
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Hi David S., I think on Mac <strong>right-click</strong> is replaced by <strong>Ctrl+click</strong> and if someone would give me a Mac I would be happy to test that myself.
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<p>On a Mac right-clicking and ctrl-clicking do exactly the same thing (ctrl-click is a hangover from the olden days of single-button mice).
</p><p>Yeah, I've done more testing and that's definitely it - on a Mac you have to open the list of bookmarks using the Bookmarks "star" tool in the toolbar, right click on the gray text in there and that pops up the menu option to hide recently bookmarked. If you right-click on the gray text from the app's normal Bookmarks menu nothing happens. Sigh.
</p>Hi David S., I think on Mac right-click is replaced by Ctrl+click and if someone would give me a Mac2016-09-21T11:43:39-07:00jscher2000https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-919250<p>Hi David S., I think on Mac <strong>right-click</strong> is replaced by <strong>Ctrl+click</strong> and if someone would give me a Mac I would be happy to test that myself.
</p>jscher2000 said
Hi David S., I think Nelson meant the bookmarks menu that you open using the toolb2016-09-21T11:39:10-07:00dshanahhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-919248<p><em>jscher2000 <a href="#answer-919236" rel="nofollow">said</a></em>
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Hi David S., I think Nelson meant the bookmarks menu that you open using the toolbar button. However, in Firefox 49, it should work on either the bookmarks menu on the classic menu bar or the one that opens from the button.
Right-click the gray wording Recently Bookmarked, and the last item on the right-click context menu should be "Hide Recently Bookmarked". Under the covers, this changes the preference you found in about:config from true to false.
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<p>Right-clicking on the gray wording in the pulldown Bookmarks menu does nothing on a Mac (I'll bet this is the problem - I'm doing this on a Mac not a Windows machine). But now that I poke around I find that if I put the Bookmarks "star" tool into the toolbar (which one again I normally don't because it's just useless clutter when you already have a menu called Bookmarks right there) and right-click on that <em>then</em> I get the pop-up menu with the option to hide the recently bookmarked!
</p><p>So it all seems to depend on whether you're using the stupid bookmarks tool in the Toolbar or not. Of course on a Windows install where the default is to not display a regular menubar anymore you probably need to... (unprintable commentary involving Microsoft and sheep redacted).
</p>Hi David S., I think Nelson meant the bookmarks menu that you open using the toolbar button. However2016-09-21T10:59:52-07:00jscher2000https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-919236<p>Hi David S., I think Nelson meant the bookmarks menu that you open using the toolbar button. However, in Firefox 49, it should work on either the bookmarks menu on the classic menu bar or the one that opens from the button.
</p><p>Right-click the gray wording Recently Bookmarked, and the last item on the right-click context menu should be "Hide Recently Bookmarked". Under the covers, this changes the preference you found in about:config from true to false.
</p>Nelson Yeung said
I don't get what's with all the code and crazy settings.
Just right click on the2016-09-21T10:54:56-07:00dshanahhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-919234<p><em>Nelson Yeung <a href="#answer-919229" rel="nofollow">said</a></em>
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I don't get what's with all the code and crazy settings.
Just right click on the bookmark pop up and press "Hide Recently Bookmarked". Simple.
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<p>What do you mean by the "bookmark pop up"? Are you referring to the Bookmarks view in the Sidebar? I don't enable the sidebar; I always access bookmarks from the menu (as God intended). If you mean something else then please explain where this mysterious pop up is located, because I don't see it.
</p>I don't get what's with all the code and crazy settings.
Just right click on the bookmark pop up and2016-09-21T10:37:47-07:00nelsyeunghttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-919229<p>I don't get what's with all the code and crazy settings.
Just right click on the bookmark pop up and press "Hide Recently Bookmarked". Simple.
</p>1. Type "about:config" in address bar. Tell it you'll be careful, etc.
2. Search for "browser.bookma2016-09-20T11:33:14-07:00dshanahhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-918784<p>1. Type "about:config" in address bar. Tell it you'll be careful, etc.
</p><p>2. Search for "browser.bookmarks.showRecentlyBookmarked" in the config parameters and then double-click on it's "Value" field so it switches from "true" to "false".
</p><p>3. There is no step 3.
</p><p>N.B. The above works with FF 49.0, don't know if it's applicable to earlier versions or not.
</p>I found this page on google when looking for a solution to the same problem, which seems to have app2016-08-04T10:49:10-07:00neRok00https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-903713<p>I found this page on google when looking for a solution to the same problem, which seems to have appeard in v48 for me too. I did just discover you can right click in the bookmark menu and "Hide Recently Bookmarked". I am now on 49.0b1 though, so perhaps this was a change since then?
</p>You're welcome.
The bookmark-item elements aren't in a separate container, so the code looks a bit w2016-04-29T09:08:48-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-871591<p>You're welcome.
The bookmark-item elements aren't in a separate container, so the code looks a bit weird.
I don't know if there is a shorter way to specify elements between two selectors or a specific number of items that follow a specific selector.
</p><p>The separator would probably be the last item with menuseparator appended:
</p><pre>#menu_recentBookmarks+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+menuseparator {display:none!important;}
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<pre>#BMB_recentBookmarks+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+menuseparator {display:none!important;}
</pre>That code worked, all the unnecessary clutter is gone, though to be nit-picky there is still a redun2016-04-29T08:58:30-07:00Immortal009https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-871583<p>That code worked, all the unnecessary clutter is gone, though to be nit-picky there is still a redundant separator. Thanks a lot, I hate little things like this that should be easy to solve with a click.
</p>The Other Bookmarks item shows the Unsorted folder.
Maybe thiscode work better:
#menu_unsortedBookm2016-04-29T08:51:51-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-871582<p>The Other Bookmarks item shows the Unsorted folder.
</p><p>Maybe thiscode work better:
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<pre>#menu_unsortedBookmarks,
#BMB_unsortedBookmarks {display:none!important}
#BMB_recentBookmarks,
#BMB_recentBookmarks+.bookmark-item,
#BMB_recentBookmarks+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item,
#BMB_recentBookmarks+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item,
#BMB_recentBookmarks+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item,
#BMB_recentBookmarks+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item{display:none!important}
#menu_recentBookmarks,
#menu_recentBookmarks+.bookmark-item,
#menu_recentBookmarks+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item,
#menu_recentBookmarks+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item,
#menu_recentBookmarks+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item,
#menu_recentBookmarks+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item+.bookmark-item{display:none!important}</pre>I think this is a hard one because there are five new menuitem elements after the heading, but as fa2016-04-29T08:25:11-07:00jscher2000https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-871571<p>I think this is a hard one because there are five new menuitem elements after the heading, but as far as I can tell from looking at the code (a dangerous exercise for a non-coder!) they may not be uniquely identifiable versus other bookmarks. For example, this might affect too many, but you could test it (this does nothing in Firefox 46):
</p><p>.menuitem-iconic.menuitem-with-favicon.bookmark-item.subviewbutton {
background-color: #ffe !important;
}
</p><p>If the pale yellow appears behind other bookmarks, then this selector is not unique enough. If it only affects the recently bookmarked list, you could change the style rule to display:none and hopefully that will take care of them.
</p>Copied the userChrome.css you posted, all it did was remove the "Recently Bookmarked" entry which is2016-04-29T07:26:10-07:00Immortal009https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-871548<p>Copied the userChrome.css you posted, all it did was remove the "Recently Bookmarked" entry which is progress I guess, however the 5 most recent bookmarks are still there cluttering everything up.
</p>See also:
bug 1219804 - Show last 5 recent bookmarks in the bookmarks menu
Please do not comment i2016-04-29T07:17:56-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-871542<p>See also:
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<ul><li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1219804" rel="nofollow">bug 1219804</a> - Show last 5 recent bookmarks in the bookmarks menu
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</p>Recently bookmarked could be this selector in the "Show your bookmarks" drop-down list (#BMB_recentB2016-04-29T07:12:44-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1120624#answer-871539<p>Recently bookmarked could be this selector in the "Show your bookmarks" drop-down list (#BMB_recentBookmarks) and in the Bookmarks Menu (#menu_recentBookmarks).
</p><p>Add code to the <b>userChrome.css</b> file below the default @namespace line.
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<ul><li><a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/userChrome.css" rel="nofollow">http://kb.mozillazine.org/userChrome.css</a>
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<pre>@namespace url("<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul" rel="nofollow">http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul</a>"); /* only needed once */
#BMB_recentBookmarks { display:none!important; }
#menu_recentBookmarks { display:none!important; }
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<p>The customization files userChrome.css (user interface) and userContent.css (websites) are located in the <b>chrome</b> folder in the Firefox profile folder.
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<ul><li><a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editing_configuration" rel="nofollow">http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editing_configuration</a>
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