Clearly Foul-up-Fox intended to let people turn off buttons in the 'Customize Screen.' At: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-make-new-firefox-look-like-old-firefox They include instructions and a screenshot for how to pick button style. It's under, "Use the customize screen..." It says: "Mode: Here you can choose to show text labels under the toolbar buttons or to have just text button (no icons)." The picture shows: "Buttons: Normal, Small" and "Mode: Icon, Icons + Text, Text. But this feature just isn't there. It's badly needed. And who wants to do all that text-edit garbage?

I did solve the problem with that awful "text-edit garbage". It did remove the useless folder icons, leaving my terse text, so I have a lot of places to keep my bookmarks.

Your solution sounds really good. Seems to me that it would be best on a new install of FireFox, where all other dabbling is removed. I have FireFox 30.0, btw, and Mavericks 10.9.2. While not an intrinsic part of a FireFox distribution (which it ought to be!!!), as an add-on, it should safely be able to make these changes.

I am going to hang with what I have so far, but I have marked the add-on for the future.

Thanks!

--B.

I have followed these instructions (Bry's and Cor-el's) to the letter and still have the icons in the bookmark toolbar. Anybody else have a proven solution or suggestions? Firefox 29.0.1

Thanks

Leigh

My solution was simple. Lacking the advanced technical skills to modify Firefox 29, I uninstalled 29 and installed Firefox 28. Problem solved.

For some reason, I was terribly annoyed at not being able to select text only for the bookmarks toolbar.

Talvez,

That's what I did also. Mozilla must have anticipated this, because when you install 28 you must click an "Update" button to install it. That results in another "update" to 29. After I saw what happened, I went through the 28 install again and this time I interrupted the process, preventing the update. Now I have 28 back, no icons on the toolbar, and I changed my settings to prevent any more automatic updates to either Firefox or Thunderbird. Not all change is progress, Mozilla...

• Create the chrome folder (lowercase) in the <xxxxxxxx>.default profile folder if this folder doesn't exist.
• Use a plain text editor like Notepad to create a (new) userChrome.css or userContent.css file in this folder (the names are case sensitive).
• Paste the code in the userChrome.css or userContent.css file in the editor window and make sure that the userChrome.css file starts with the default @namespace line.
• Make sure that you select "All files" and not "Text files" when you save the file via "Save file as" in the text editor as userChrome.css.

Otherwise Windows may add a hidden .txt file extension and you end up with a not working userChrome.css.txt or userContent.css.txt file.
In case of problems you can check the file type in the Properties of the file via the right-click context menu.

You can use the Stylish extension to have easier access to the customization files.

• Stylish: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/stylish/

Thanks cor-el,

I'm reasonably sure I did this correctly. I tried to attach three screenshots, but they failed to attach for some reason (too big?). I do now have a chrome folder in my profile. It contains a folder called userChrome.css which contains the code I copied and pasted from your earlier reply. It still does not work.