I am a Windows user switching to Mac (just ordered the new iMac), but I have used the iMac in the past and found one thing very inconvenient - i.e., I could not find a way to create bookmark shortcuts on Safari or Firefox (please see the attachment). On windows, when I add a bookmark to Bookmarks Toolbar in Firefox, each bookmark shows up as a small, square, clickable image, which makes it very easy to access the sites I used the most, but on a Mac, the images do not show up on Safari or Firefox. Is there a way to add them somehow?
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How do I do this on a Mac?
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There won't be images but you can click the + icon next to the address bar and it will appear in you bookmarks bar, which is located under the address bar.
So I have 55 of those things just a click away when I used Firefox/Windows, which is very convenient since, well, any of those sites that I use frequently are just a click away. I cannot believe there is not something similar on a Mac.
Did you even read my post? There most certainly is but instead of those ugly pictures, it has text.
Did you even read my post? There most certainly is but instead of those ugly pictures, it has text.
I have read it. I knew that I can add text on Safari, but the pictures are useful, the text is not. Why not? Because it takes too much space. I have 55 sites added. Each picture is self-explanatory, I know which picture is for which website. Text, on the other hand, looks all the same. You need to read it every time to find the site you want, and it takes a lot more space, so you need to abbreviation and then remember each derivation, which is even more pain for over 50 websites.
What is BTO?
I have never used Chrome. Interesting, thanks!
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Safari displays just text. FF by default on both Windows and OS X displays both icons and text. You must have done something on your Windows FF to remove the text. Just do the same for your FF on OS X
For example: http://www.binaryturf.com/squeeze-firefox-bookmarks-bar/
Edit: on a Mac the userChrome-example.css file is under /Users/<your account>/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<your profie>.default/chrome
If you modified your Windows Firefox through userChrome.css you can just copy it over.
For example: http://www.binaryturf.com/squeeze-firefox-bookmarks-bar/
Edit: on a Mac the userChrome-example.css file is under /Users/<your account>/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<your profie>.default/chrome
If you modified your Windows Firefox through userChrome.css you can just copy it over.
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Firefox on pc puts the favicon (small clickable image) and name of the site in the bookmark bar by default. In order to just display the images like you have, the bookmark must be edited manually to erase the title of the site, leaving only the favicon. Never tried chrome on mac, but try editing the bookmark by erasing the name of the site. It should do the same thing and leave behind the favicon only.
That is exactly what I did. Right click on an icon/Properties/Delete the name in the Name field.
Try the userChrome.css modification I suggested above - you won't have to edit anything else then. But as beatzfreak says, you can edit the text on FireFox anyway.