Firefox toolbars

[cjsmith]

My GoogleFu is insufficient. Help me, LJ-Brain-Kenobi. You're my only hope.

I've got a cute little icon in my Firefox toolbar on my work machine. It's in the navigation toolbar, if this matters. I'd like to know exactly what it does so that I can then create another, just like it, to put on my Firefox toolbar on my home machine.

All I've found so far is the obvious stuff about how to drag things to and from these toolbars. I want to edit one.

Anybody know how this is done?

Comments

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

Do you mean the favicon? If so, Google favicon.ico - but that only applies if you are creating a website...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't mean that -- but that's nifty to know! :-)

I was thinking more along these lines. Here's a picture:
http://cheeaun.phoenity.com/weblog/images/screenshots/firefox/dark-navigation-toolbar-window-maximized-vista-style-before-after-firefox.png

Imagine that right next to the Home icon (the little house), I've got another, custom one, installed by a web site. Now I want to change what that icon does.

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

Ah I see... well, no ideas on that one then! Let us all know if you figure something out.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

So far all I have found is that a useful keyword is XUL.

There are no buttons. There is only XUL.

[mithriltabby]

View / Toolbars / Customize and drag it into place in your favorite toolbar.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

"All I've found so far is the obvious stuff about how to drag things to and from these toolbars. I want to edit one."

How can I change what it does?

[mithriltabby]

So you want a custom icon to perform a custom action? Is that action “go to a particular web site” or something more complicated? There may be an add-on to do that.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yep, just "go to a particular web site". There's got to be a way. For example, when I installed del.icio.us stuff, it put a little four-square icon up in my navigation toolbar, and that icon simply takes me to del.icio.us. Then I waited a while (my big mistake) before installing the same stuff at home. The new del.icio.us four-square icon puts in frames and menus and screws with my window layout and is generally completely unuseful. I would love to cut-and-paste the action from the old four-square icon (which I've still got a copy of on my work machine) and bring it home to replace the action taken by my home version's four-square icon.

[mithriltabby]

Have you tried messing with the configuration on the new Delicious add-on? I’m using 2.0.72 and it has a “Switch to Classic Mode” button on the Preferences dialog. (Add-ons / Delicious Bookmarks / Preferences)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Mmm, thanks for the idea. I'll try that when I get home. (My old version, here at work, doesn't have that option.)

[platypus]

I'm not totally clear on what you're referring to. If you move a function to the toolbar, that function should have an icon specific to its function. Your phrasing here sounds like you have an icon whose function you do not know but whose appearance you like, and you want to make it... do something else? What does it do now? What do you want it to do? It might be able to hack the icon used to represent a function in some way, but I'm not sure what your desired end result is.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have an icon at home whose function I do not like, and I've got an icon at work whose function I like. I'd like to hack the home one to act like the work one. :)

[platypus]

Huh. If it's just 'go to a website,' it seems like you could create a link to the website, stick it in your bookmark toolbar folder, and then hack the favicon that represents it (there are certainly favicon hacking extensions). But that might not be precisely the result you want.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmmm, yes. That has possibilities. I know that things on the bookmark toolbar and things on the navigation toolbar can be moved between the two. (They retain their original nature, though; bookmark toolbar items have "Properties..." and navigation ones don't.) Then I could just hide the one I don't like. Hmmm.

[edit: crap. Navigation toolbar items can be moved to the bookmark toolbar, but bookmark items can only be moved as a group entire, up to the navigaton toolbar or not. Close... it's close.]

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

My four-square icon (using the new delicious) just takes me to delicious. There's a different icon next to it (sort of blue with a bookmark picture on one side) that opens all the Firefox bookmark icons.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should just deinstall the Firefox del.icio.us stuff and start over!

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5066

share and enjoy

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thanks!