Google Chrome: Make the Bookmarks Bar Display as Icons Only
Posted by Rob Rogers in Google
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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December 16, 2008 at 10:22 pm, Bill said:
Any way to get rid of the icons?
December 27, 2008 at 8:58 am, Drew said:
Sweet tip! Thanks!
January 16, 2009 at 11:43 pm, krtk said:
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?)
April 01, 2009 at 11:41 am, mhd said:
hi,i already disable bookmark , and need to enable again as icon
April 26, 2009 at 5:15 am, Carl said:
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.
November 09, 2009 at 12:44 am, Vilas Pendse said:
This is what I do, it’s really nice.
December 06, 2009 at 2:56 pm, Gil said:
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!
December 08, 2009 at 10:11 pm, Chuck said:
Where is the bookmarks bar?
February 04, 2010 at 11:49 am, Dagmar Fraser said:
This tip sucks! I would prefer a real answer Smart Bookmarks Bar for Firefox.
March 12, 2010 at 4:00 pm, Ralph Kazemier said:
OMG
May 22, 2010 at 1:39 pm, Robert said:
Are you willing to do that for each and every one of my 137 bookmarks on my bookmark bar?!?!
May 05, 2011 at 12:14 am, Người Móng Cái said:
thanks
August 26, 2011 at 5:40 am, Kjuly said:
OMG, I cost so much time searching extensions of this function and finally I got here finding this cool & easy tip…Thx!!!
May 19, 2012 at 10:11 pm, Jason said:
Does not work, I do not want ANYTHING to show, stop taking up browser space, I can get to where I need without 10,000 tool bars.
May 24, 2012 at 7:38 pm, Doug said:
useless when i have dozens of bookmarks there
July 04, 2012 at 11:48 pm, Lee said:
You can also just shorten what is often a really long title for the web site for each icon. I added 100% more icons by doing that and still have enough of a description for each icon. Still wish there was a way to add a second bar…
September 27, 2012 at 7:31 am, Vishnu said:
Nice tips…works well thanks
November 09, 2012 at 1:23 am, Sharelyne said:
I am using Google Chrome and the bookmarks in my Bookmark Manager are now listed on double lines. I don’t know how they ended up like that. How do I bring them back to single lines?
December 16, 2012 at 7:56 pm, Sora Roxas said:
Thanks so much!! I was trying so hard, new to Chrome, and all I got was manage, and my temper was running. So thanks!
February 11, 2013 at 11:14 pm, Tony said:
I’ve done this before, and I’ve memorized the icons. But now all the iconss have disappeared, now its all blank white files, even for things such as youtube and facebook. How do I fix this?