Firefox 3 / Firefox 4: Remove Bookmarks (or Any Other) Toolbar
Contributed by David Kirk 
Tagged: Mozilla Firefox Never being the fan of the bookmarks toolbar in any browser, the first thing I wanted to do in FF3 (or FF4) was to remove it. Here are a couple of ways that toolbars can be hidden in this new version of firefox. This article has been updated for the new release of Firefox 4.
Screen real estate is vital to me. Excessive toolbars in the browser decreases the amount of viewing area. Okay, so I occasionally use the toolbar for my high res youtube bookmarklet… but most of the time I want as few toolbars as possible.
Anyway, here is how to remove toolbars in Firefox 3 or Firefox 4. There are two easy ways.
Click the View menu -> select Toolbars -> then select which toolbars you want to be enabled or disabled.
Alternatively, you can right click on some areas of the toolbars and get the toolbar selection menu from the context menu that appears.
Where to click is not always consistent. For example, clicking the HOME link in the bookmarks toolbar will show this menu. Clicking any of the other links will not.
Here is a screencast demonstrating this tutorial.
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Frank said on January 2, 2009
Thanks, it worked for me. :D
Phil said on January 18, 2009
Thanks!
Paul said on January 31, 2009
…That doesn’t remove it from the bookmarks menu, and ideas anyone?
a said on February 18, 2009
Thanks for the help. The bookmarks toolbar was annoying.
LT said on May 2, 2009
Danke!
j0eg0d said on June 14, 2009
Here’s a little add-on that allows you to hide the Menu Bar.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4762
God knows I use keyboard shortcuts for almost everything and I just don’t need it.
Navajojo said on October 17, 2010
Thats really helpful and all, but what do i do when the toolbar doesnt show up in the toolbar menu, or in the list of programs in the add/remove part of control panel?
Ildikocska said on February 20, 2011
Thank you!!! Shame on me, that was very simple. Now I have bigger view area.
Nuno Bojar said on February 25, 2011
how do i reinstate menus? Right now I have none.
Kate said on July 21, 2011
Thank you so much! I was getting really worked up with a Norton one.