IE8/IE9: Make the Favorites Bar Display as Icons Only
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Browsers By reducing your Favorites Bar to show only the icons, you can access more of them from Internet Explorer’s Favorites Bar. This works great for sites with recognizable favicons like Gmail, Google Calendar, etc.
1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Right-click on one of the icons on the Favorites Bar. Mouseover Customize Title Widths and select Icons Only.
Your Favorites Bar goes from something like this:
to this:
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ZyRiX said on April 23, 2009
So how do we get rid of this damn Chili’s advertisement on top of the page that keeps opening when ever you get close to it???
It should be moved somehwre else instead of blocking the recipes title.,..
IleneG said on April 23, 2009
Don’t have the option on the drop-down menu.
sazwqa said on April 24, 2009
*Short Titles* is also some-what helpful in saving space.
Thanks for the tip !
yry said on April 24, 2009
did a long time ago but thx anyway
Caperusso said on October 17, 2009
Thanks, simple but useful
Anonymous said on January 24, 2010
ummm… so how do you make them short or long icons again? Having made favourite bar dispaly icons only, I now want to reverse this action, but can’t work out how??
Anonymous said on January 24, 2010
ignore that – I’ve worked it. :-)
Karen said on July 11, 2011
THANK YOU, this has been bugging me for ages as i couldn’t figure out how to get it back from icons only!
raj said on January 15, 2012
Thanks a lot friend.
Connie said on January 26, 2012
Thank you for the solution to viewing icons only, long or short names. I ws very exasperated.