Adding Favicons to your Firefox 3 Bookmark Toolbar on the Mac

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July 7th, 2008 · No Comments

A ridiculously long title to describe a very simple function which has been missing from the Mac version of Firefox since 2.x.

On windows, Firefox’s Bookmarks Toolbar will display the Favicons along with the text for the items in your bookmarks toolbar. Something I’ve always done to conserve space in that toolbar is to blank-out the titles and rely solely on the icons to identify the bookmark I want.

The trouble? The Mac version of Firefox doesn’t display the favicons in the toolbar. Suffice to say that this has been more than a tad annoying, but until tonight I’ve simply put up with it.

Thankfully I found a short & sweet article that Gina wrote over on LifeHacker which led me to both a Firefox Plugin and a website to get me back my icons.

The steps to get the icons back are short and sweet.

Download the plugin Stylish
Do the obligatory Firefox restart
Visit UserStyles.org and download this style for Stylish
Done!!

It was really that simple, and now I’ve got my icons on my Mac. Though they are spaced apart much further than on Windows, it’s a damn sight better than not having them at all.