Customize Firefox’s Toolbars

One option in Firefox that I think a lot of folks take for granted is the fact that you can customize Firefox’s toolbars. You can do more than just make the icons smaller and drag and drop a few things here and there. With a little free time and some imagination you can really make a better browsing experience for yourself.

The first thing I usually do on a new Firefox installation is make all the icons “tiny”. Personally, I just don’t like big icons. To do that, all you need to do is right click the main toolbar, then select “Customize…”. After you have done that, you should see at the bottom of the pop up window a place to change your icons at the bottom.

From here you can: show icons, show icons and text or just show text. I have that set to just icons. To the right of that you see a check mark box that says, “Use Small Icons”. I have that selected as well.

Now that isn’t the only thing you can do from here. You can drag and drop new icons onto any of the existing toolbars you have set up. you could also take away icons you don’t use that often. You could take away everything, and just be left with the file menu if you want to be hardcore.

You can also create new toolbars or take some of the existing ones away. It is totally up to how you want to use Firefox.