Downloads, Add-on sidebars with no extensions
Published: January 26th, 2007
You can reduce the clutter in your task bar by opening Firefox’s Add-ons and Download managers in the sidebar rather than a separate window. To do this:
- In the Bookmarks menu, select Organize Bookmarks… to open the Bookmarks Manager.
- Press the New Bookmark… button in the toolbar.
- Enter an appropriate name for the bookmark, for example Downloads.
- Enter chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/downloads.xul in Location.
- If you want, you can assign a keyword like dls to be able to open the
download manager from the location bar, however it won’t open in the sidebar but the main content area.
- Check Load this bookmark in the sidebar.
For the Add-ons manager, enter chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul in Location, instead.
You can also open the Bookmarks Manager in a tab, repeat the steps and enter chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksManager.xul in Location, and, of course, don’t check Load this bookmark in the sidebar.
Then place the new bookmarks in a handy place such as top in the bookmarks menu or the Bookmarks Toolbar.
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January 26th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
That is a great hack and a great tip! Thanks!
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January 27th, 2007 at 4:12 am
Great tip! (Just for the record: Lifehacker had posted something similar quite a while ago.)
Unfortunately, it’s apparently not possible to open a bookmark in the sidebar when using a keyword.
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January 27th, 2007 at 8:05 am
AceNo_One, thanks for your comment, I have updated the article to note this. I’m pretty sure these tips have been shared before.
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December 27th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Hi, I dont like the new bookmarks, I like to be abletomake a new folder while doing the bookmark,that option is not here anymore, now I have to premake the folder & then put the bookmark into the folder so what used to take 1 click now takes at least 4, will You bring back the option of having the old bookmark system?
Thanks
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January 25th, 2008 at 11:21 am
This will probably come as no surprise to most of your readers, (given that one is based on the other) but this also works in Flock - except you don’t have the option to open the link in the sidebar. Although, thinking about it there’s probably a system setting on the about:config page that could be changed to allow this.
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April 25th, 2008 at 10:46 am
That is a great hack and a great tip! Excellent
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