Save a Link for Later with Read It Later


Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Keep track of your daily to-read list with the Read it Later Firefox extension. Similar to previously mentioned Readeroo—which integrates directly with Del.icio.us—Read it Later takes a slightly different approach, keeping your reading list local until you read it and decide whether or not you want to bookmark it. If you do, you have the option to bookmark on any number of popular bookmarking sites, from Del.icio.us to Digg. The drawback is that Read it Later doesn’t currently sync across browsers, which would be a nice touch. Read it Later is free, works wherever Firefox does.

Another great extension for Firefox.

Wrap Firefox’s Bookmarks Toolbar

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Firefox only: Yesterday you learned how to auto-hide your Firefox bookmarks toolbar, and today we’ve got the tweak to make that toolbar wrap onto multiple lines instead of scrolling off the right side. Like the auto-hide tweak, this requires a change to your Firefox profile’s userChrome.css file. Here’s the CSS you need:

/* Multi-row bookmarks toolbar */ #bookmarks-ptf {display: block;} #bookmarks-ptf toolbarseparator {display: inline;}

You can combine this technique with the auto-hide technique to make all the lines of your bookmarks toolbar appear when you hover. If you’re new to userChrome.css, here’s more on working with it. Thanks, Mike!

Nice little tip there!! Thanks

Auto-Hide Your Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar

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Firefox only: Love the bookmarks toolbar but only want it there when you need it? Reader Andy writes in with a tweak that makes the toolbar hide automatically, unless you mouse over it (like auto-hiding your Windows taskbar or Mac Dock.) To turn on auto-hiding you have to edit your Firefox profile’s copy of userChrome.css Here’s the code you need:

/* Pop-up bookmarks toolbar */ #PersonalToolbar {display: none;} #navigator-toolbox:hover > #PersonalToolbar {display: -moz-box;}

If you haven’t edited userChrome.css before, here’s a primer on doing so. The ChromEdit Plus extension makes user-specific tweaks easier.

A few other bookmark toolbar tweaks:

For more space-saving, here’s how to consolidate Firefox’s chrome. Thanks, Andy!


Hmm, I nice little way to hid those bars!!