Hiding Specific Bookmark Labels in Firefox
To start things off, I use Mozilla’s great add-on Weave to sync my Firefox bookmarks between my home computer, work computer, and my laptop. This has been working great, but I’ve recently noticed that some of my bookmarks on my laptop are being hidden due to the smaller screen resolution. Now some may suggest to remove some unneeded bookmarks, but I decided that there must be a better solution.
One solution I found was to edit the bookmark and set the label to a blank value. This worked, but it caused the tool-tip to only show the URL so I wondered if a more graceful solution was possible.
This is where the Firefox add-on Stylish comes into play. Stylish is an add-on that lets you “fix ugly sites, customize the look of your browser or mail client, or just have fun.” Using Stylish I wrote a style that hides the label on any bookmark that has a “.” character as the first character.
To use this style you will need to install Stylish if you have not already. Once installed go to my styles page on userstyles.org and click on “Install with Stylish.” Now all you need to do is prepend a “.” character to any bookmark you want to hide the label.
In doing so I was able to go from this:
To this:
All my bookmarks now fit great on my laptop, and I liked the results so much that I applied the same style to my other computers as well.
Let me know what you think of this solution and if you used it yourself.
