Please add Favicons to the bookmarks bar!

Apple, please please please get this done. It's a feature that keeps so many users from switching to Safari.

My bookmarks bar has favicons in the folders.
Here is the "News" folder I have.

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How can I put favicons on the bookmarks bar?

I am used to seeing favicons next to my bookmarks--in fact, I have several that have favicons only (such as Google Reader, ESPN). Can this happen with Safari (Windows)? After favicons, seeing all text bookmarks on the bookmarks bar is so 2000s.
Sorry if this is the wrong category; I didn't see a Windows Safari version forum.

TheScreamoPrincess wrote:
*How Can I Put Lyrics On The Songs In The iPod Touch?!
Read the response by Jim VanLeeuwen, but I might add a few comments:
(a) Lyrics on the Touch are only supported if you have firmware 2.0 or later.
(b) If you auto-sync your iPod, the changes you make to your library will be copied over to the Touch on your next sync. But if you manually manage the Touch I believe that you will need to delete the revised songs from the Touch and drag the new copies over. Although you can add lyrics directly to the songs that are on the Touch (if you manually manage) it is better to edit your library and replace the updated songs on the Touch. That way in case your Touch ever gets corrupted and you have to delete everything, you won't lose the lyrics (or any other tag changes you made directly on the Touch).

Favicons on the Bookmarks Bar?

I'm afraid I know the answer to this, but I have not been able to find a definitive answer on the web. Is there any way I can show favicons on the Safari Bookmarks Bar - not within a folder, but in the bar itself? Thanks much.

favicon.ico files have to be placed in the root directory of your web site in order to show up as an address icon. A browser refresh is required after the upload is in place to see the ico. You need access to the site's root directory in order to upload the favicon.ico file.
Example: http://macroads.com
BTW: A favicon.ico is a "bitmap" image (.jpg will do to start from) saved as a .bmp file then renamed "favicon.ico". Most favicon.ico files are 32px x 32px square.

When I want to add items to the bookmarks toolbar, for example: -Zoom toolbar. The zoom Toolbar appears on the bookmarks toolbar, but it shows the favicons aswell the underlined text. I only want the favicons. How to do this, please help!!

I want to add items to the bookmarks toolbar. for example: the Zoom Toolbar addon. This works, but not only the favicons appear on the bookmarks toolbar, aswell as the underlined text. How to avoid this?
I only want the favicons from an addon to appear on the bookmarks toolbar, not with the underlined text. How to do this?
This problem doesn't happen with any other toolbar. And this problem didn't happen with an earlier version of firefox. Please Help!
Thanx, BassMann.

If you only want the favicons and not the names of the bookmarks on the bookmarks toolbar, you can do that with the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4072/ Smart Bookmarks Bar] add-on.

Why can't I add a bookmark to subfolders in the bookmark bar by drag-n-drop?

Way back in the '90s, there used to be a Mac browser (IE?) that allowed you to drag a URL from the address bar, hover it over a bookmark folder in the bookmark bar, and it would spring open to expose all the subfolders, and allow you to drop the new URL into any of the exposed subfolders.
This remains, without a doubt, the most effective, straightforward, simple, and efficient way of filing bookmarks I've ever experienced.
Why doesn't Safari use this system? Or does it, and I just don't know how to enable it? If it doesn't, how can I suggest this to the Safari team?
Cheers,
Lloyd

Safari 7 looks likely to allow dragging from the address bar to folders in the sidebar - although no mention of drag/drop onto sub-folders in the bookmarks (favorites) bar. But there is a + button just to the left, which may allow '1-click' adding to sub-folders, Reading List etc (more here)

Hello-i have an i-mac; on the bookmark bar it has sites like news,google maps,etc. Can i add sites to that bar like craigslist or aol mail? what is the best way to go to frequent websites?

what is the best way to mark a frequent website other than a bookmark?

The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
If you click the book icon on the left end of the bookmarks bar you can manage all of your bookmarks. Bookmarks can be added individually to the bar (the shorter the name the more room for bookmarks) or you can create folders of bookmarks that can be accessed from the bookmarks bar.
http://operating-systems.wonderhowto.com/how-to/use-safari-bookmarks-bar-326549/

How do I drag a link to the bookmarks bar?

This started with a simple attempt to install an app that will let me see page source at sites I'm looking at (I'm doing web development and learning to customize for iphone). When I went to a site to get me started, it said all I had to do was drag thhis link ("this link" was hyperlinked text) to the bookmarks bar. I tried touching the link and dragging it to bookmarks bar but that just moved the whole page. I tried holding my finger on the link until it showed a gray background and dragging to the book marks bar. Same problem. I googled dragging links and found some sites that talked about using a + symbol in the bookmarks bar. I don't see one. I have an iPhone 3GS, and the bookmarks bar has a left arrow, right arrow, box with an arrow pointing out of it, open book symbol and double page symbol. So I looked for another way to add this ability to view source, and found a page where I guy had developed a little JavaScript that needed to be added to my iPhone. He suggested I email it to my iPhone, then copy and paste it to a specific location. So I googled how to copy and paste on an iPhone. Guess what? Found another page where I was instructed to drag "this link" to the bookmarks bar to give me the ability to cut and paste. I tried all kinds of finger tricks in the email, trying to copy the JavaSCript and finally gave up in complete aggravation. These should be baby steps and I can't make any of them work.
On top of everything else, I can't even get iSafari to have a simple home page. What's up with that /#X%&*\# ?
Very, very frustrated. On a desktop PC I'm very good with all kinds of software and system tools and tweaks. On my groovy new iPhone, I feel like a dope. What happened to the intuitive interface of Apple products? Help?

Yes, I'm familiar with the old RTFM rule, but I tried four different times to retrieve that manual form the Apple site. Each time got an error message that something was wrong, that they were working on it, and to please come back later. On the fifth try last night, I got through and successfully downloaded the user guide. Woo hoo!

How to make the bookmarks bar JUST text and without the "Bookmarks" drop down and make the other bar have text with pictures? How to download a previous version of firefox?

The option is to set text, text and pictures, or pictures but it affects both bars and how to get the old version back because I just wanted a stupid addon that I didn't even need and now is firefox just stuck this way. I know it's better to have the new version for security or whatever but the new features are bad for me personally I can't use this program how can I get the old version again please help. Or at least help me fix my bookmarks bar it was carefully made so I can do my work but now it has been destroyed and it can't get rid of the icons without getting rid of Home Refresh Stop icons and also the Bookmarks dropdown menu button can't be removed from the bookmarks bar?

So if the bookmarks toolbar is fixed up you don't need to go back to Firefox 4. That's easy.
This styling will change the bookmark folders to blue (most common) and the few bookmarks to red. Most would have short names 1-4 characters. Install the "'''Stylish'''" extension and then the [http://kb.mozillazine.org/User:Dmcritchie style(s)] suggested below.
* '''Stylish''' :: Add-ons for Firefox<br>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/
* '''Bookmarks Toolbar Fx4 Blue/Folders, Red/Bookmarks''' - Themes and Skins for Browser<br>http://userstyles.org/styles/46947
'''Additional styling suggestions'''
* '''Scrollbar Menu''' - Themes and Skins for Browser - userstyles.org<br>http://userstyles.org/styles/52
* '''Scrollbar Context Menu''' - Themes and Skins for Browser<br>http://userstyles.org/styles/54
The drop-down at the end wouldn't be there as long as everything fits on the row.
:Once you start using styles you will really like them because you can control/modify/use them independently as building blocks as opposed to someone elses full theme design or extension.
I fail to see how the above is ''sketchy''
# Install the "'''Stylish'''" extension
# Install the suggested Style
The advantage of a style is that they are very small compared to extensions, and if you don't like they way it looks, you can modify it. Try to do that with an extension.
The suggested style shows folders in blue, and bookmarklets or bookmarks in red used as buttons.
The deiconizer extension looks rather hard to read, seems rather large for what it does, and it has space wasting drop downs which are meaningless, simply left click to show the folder.
''it can't get rid of the (bookmark/folder) icons without getting rid of Home Refresh Stop icons and also the Bookmarks dropdown menu button can't be removed from the bookmarks bar?''
The Home button would show as text ("Home") with the style change, as for Refresh ("F5") and Stop("Esc") the keyboard shortcuts work better for me anyway and have never included them on my toolbars. I keep the Home button to the left of the Location bar anyway so it shows an icon.
'''For those that really need an earlier version of Firefox''', find your system and the Firefox version you want in releases, download and start the install.
* ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/
When reinstalling Firefox from a download, Firefox must be down once the installation starts. When the installation finishes, don't let the install start firefox for you. Instead end the install and start Firefox in your normal manner, thus preventing creating a new profile which does not have your bookmarks cookies, etc (but your old profile would still be around and would).

The bookmarks bar is really wide on the Mac version. Is this a bug?

[http://img.skitch.com/20101103-1uasm1ynk15e5whb31p1bifest.jpg ]
Surely this is a bug. The bookmarks bar is ''huge!''
On a related note, is it possible to get rid of the favicons? It's really ungainly.

Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
See [[Basic Troubleshooting#Make_a_new_profile|Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile]]
There may be extensions and plugins installed by default in a new profile, so check that in "Tools > Add-ons > Extensions & Plugins"
If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile (be careful not to copy corrupted files)
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
See also:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Testing_pre-release_versions
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_multiple_profiles_-_Firefox
You can hide the favicons on the Bookmarks Toolbar with code in userChrome.css
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editing_configuration#How_to_edit_configuration_files
Add code to [http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserChrome.css userChrome.css] below the @namespace line.
<pre><nowiki>@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */
#personal-bookmarks .toolbarbutton-icon {display:none!important}
</nowiki></pre>

What is the "Bookmarks Bar" and how do I use it?

I've been all over my iPad user guide and can find zero information about the "bookmarks bar" except how to make it appear and disappear. I am now able to make a blank area near the top of the Safari screen appear and disappear - GREAT!!!! Information as to what this area may contain, how to place and remove items from it, etc is NOWHERE! If there is anyone out there that uses this feature, please explain what it is and if you find it useful.
In windows internet explorer, there is a "favorites bar" near the top of the screen where I can place the icons for my most used favorites. Instead of opening a favorites menu and scrolling through it to find what I want, I just click the icon that is always present at the top of the internet explorer page - really useful. I imagine that "bookmarks bar" is a similar feature in Safari but it's completely ignored in the iPad user guide.
Thanks for any help you can give.
- Jim

Thanks Skydiver,
This was easy and does exactly what I thought it would do! What threw me off was the menu that pops up when you go to save a page as a bookmark. The menu lists 6 choices: Add bookmark; Add to reading list; Add to home screen; mail link to this page; Tweet; and Print. Notice there is no choice to "add to bookmarks bar". You have to select "add bookmark" and then within the next process box you have the option to specify an alternative to bookmark. When you look for the alternatives, "bookmarks bar" shows up. Not exactly obvious, is it?
It's almost like they don't don't want you to use it. This is absolutely OBTUSE!
Thanks again, Skydivier!

How can I take off the text on the bookmark bar and just leave the Icons of the bookmarks on the boomark bar ?

I'd like to save space for more sites on my bookmark bar so I'd like to take off the text on the bookmark bar and just leave the site Icon's...that way there will be much more space to add on more sites to my bookmark bar.

SImple open the bookmark properties and erase the name, to open the bookmark properties:
*Go to '''Bookmarks''' >> '''Show all bookmarks''' >> or press '''Ctrl+Shift+B ''' click on the bookmark to see the properties.
*Go to bookmark page click on the blue star to see the properties or Press Ctrl+D

I am trying to use pinterest on my computer. i had it installed in the bookmark bar, working fine and now today mysteriously it stopped working. help!

i am trying to use pinterest on my computer. i had it installed, in the bookmark bar, it was working properly, and today it has stopped working. i have deleted it, and reinstalled, but still the same problem. please help!

It looks like that "button" is just a JavaScript with a web link. Have you tried clearing your browser's cache and cookies? Also, confirm that JavaScript is still active; there will be a setting in your brower's preferences; it's in the Security pane in some versions of Safari.
Regards.

Is possible to make the bookmarks bar only appear on the homepage?

I was just wondering if it was possible, with or without an add-on, if i could make it so that the bookmarks bar only appears on the homepage.

I have the bar under the adress bar for bookmarks. But i use lots of bookmaks. When i nedd to access them i press the icon you told,and the side bookmaks bar is shown, and is this bookmaks left side bar that i wish to be permanently there.
What happens is that i open it, choose the bookmark to be open and then it disappears...
On Safari, differently from Firefox, when i press the icon it shows a complete page instead of the side bookmaks bar only.

How can I drag to the bookmarks bar?

How can I drag to the bookmarks bar with iPad?

You can't - Safari on the iPad can't be personalised in that way, all you can do is add bookmarks via the icon of the square with the arrow coming out of it

In Firefox4, can I lose the folder icons from the Bookmarks Bar while keeping icons everywhere else (because the folder icons are superfluous and extend the horizontal list of bookmark folders beyond the width of the window)?

I've just installed Firefox4 for Mac (OS 10.6.7) and can no longer see all my bookmark folders at once across the top -- because the folder icons make the Bookmarks Bar too wide. Yet, I like the icons on the other bars, so I don't want to turn them off globally. Is there a way to just lose the folder icons -- which don't appear to serve a purpose anyway?

Small correction to original post. Machine is an iMac 2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo. (I was at home when I made the first post.) But the bookmarks menu behavior still exists today and FF 5 is essentially unusable.
System details next to the post are not for machine with the bug in question.
Found a copy of FF4 to use until a solution is found. Turned off automatic updates to preserve this version.

Please add Favicons to the bookmarks bar!

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