Google Chrome: Make the Bookmarks Bar Display as Icons Only

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By reducing your bookmarks to show only the icons, you can access more of them from the Bookmarks bar. This works great for sites with recognizable favicons like Gmail, Google Calendar, etc.

1. Open Google Chrome.

2. Right-click a bookmark on the Bookmarks bar.

3. Select Edit.

4. Go to the Name textbox and remove the text.

5. Click OK.

Repeat for all existing bookmarks that you want to display as icons only. When adding a new bookmark to the bar, simply remove the Name text before clicking Close.

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13 Comments -

1. Bill said on December 16, 2008

   Any way to get rid of the icons?

2. Drew said on December 27, 2008

   Sweet tip! Thanks!

3. krtk said on January 16, 2009

   I wish one could assign a favicon just like in FF? (example: Bookmark on Delicious — how can I assign an icon to that script link?)

4. mhd said on April 1, 2009

   hi,i already disable bookmark , and need to enable again as icon

5. Carl said on April 26, 2009

   Only problem with removing they cannot be exported. The export option in chrome bookmark manager will show nothing under Bookmark Bar. Other than that it’s not a problem.

6. Vilas Pendse said on November 9, 2009

   This is what I do, it’s really nice.

7. Gil said on December 6, 2009

   Nice tip….it works great; however, unlike IE8 and FF3.5.5, Chrome displays the same folder icon for all sites saved to the favorites toolbar. Is there any way, in Chrome, to show an appropriate icon for each site – like IE8 and FF3.5.5 does? Otherwise, it’s just too confusing!

8. Chuck said on December 8, 2009

   Where is the bookmarks bar?

9. Dagmar Fraser said on February 4, 2010

   This tip sucks! I would prefer a real answer Smart Bookmarks Bar for Firefox.

10. Ralph Kazemier said on March 12, 2010

    OMG

11. Robert said on May 22, 2010

    Are you willing to do that for each and every one of my 137 bookmarks on my bookmark bar?!?!

12. Người Móng Cái said on May 5, 2011

    thanks

13. Kjuly said on August 26, 2011

    OMG, I cost so much time searching extensions of this function and finally I got here finding this cool & easy tip…Thx!!! :D

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