Allow users to hide Bookmarks sections they don't use. Topic is solved

[BenFenner]

I think it would be very useful to be able to hide menu options in the Bookmarks menu.
If users never use the options available, it would be nice to be able to hide them in some way. Maybe through about:config, or in the "Organize Bookmarks" section, or a new "Bookmarks" section in the Options menu (like the Tabs section).
I feel this feature request is in line with the ability to hide tabs when only one tab is in use (which users can choose through Tools → Options → Tabs → Always show the tab bar).


The ability to hide Bookmarks → Unsorted Bookmarks if there are no bookmarks currently in that section would be AMAZING and highly appreciated. I feel the technical details of the implementation would not be too difficult.

The ability to hide Bookmarks → Subscribe to This Page would be another nice thing to have. Many of us don't participate in RSS feeds and the menu option is superfluous for us.

The ability to hide Bookmarks → Bookmark All Tabs would be another nice thing to have. Many of us don't ever use this.

The ability to hide Bookmarks → Bookmarks Toolbar if there are no bookmarks currently in that section would be very nice as well. Again, I feel the technical details of the implementation would not be too difficult. Users who don't use the bookmarks toolbar should be able to hide this.


It would be nice as well to remove the horizontal rules between the sections if the entire section does not exist, or maybe in some other configurable method. Getting rid of the menu items doesn't help much if the horizontal rule doesn't go away as well.



Here is an example of what my Bookmarks menu looks like:




And here is what I'd like my Bookmarks menu to look like:




For those of you keeping track, that's 4 menu choices I'd like to hide, and 2 horizontal rules I'd like to no longer see.

Here they are, side-by-side:

[ipsirc]

Use Menu Wizard!
http://www.s3blog.org/s3menu-wizard.html

[BenFenner]

Am I the only one hoping for this feature to be built into the browser?

[Moonchild]

Am I the only one hoping for this feature to be built into the browser?

Possibly so!

[Thehandyman1957]

No your not alone in this idea, I to do not use all those things you talked about and would love to see a way to remove them from the list.

Also, here is the link to the English page of that add on.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... nu-wizard/

Pretty cool but unfortunately it will not work for the history or bookmarks as stated.

This add-on not designed to work with dynamic content (Bookmarks list, History list, Downloads list, etc., and some other menus that are dynamically created by other add-ons)

But it does give some pretty cool options and is really nice to have.

Screenshot - 5_17_2016 , 9_05_03 AM.png

I'll have to play with it a bit.

[Moonchild]

I didn't mean to say that menu customization would be unheard of, because then the extensions doing so wouldn't exist
What is there though is there for a reason, every single entry. It may not necessarily apply to your workflow, but that's nothing strange in an application - when was the last time you used, say, every function that is available in a word processor? Or in a calculator, even?

From a browser's perspective: It is technically possible (by spending a lot more time than an extension would need to be made and used) to make all that customizable too in the browser itself, but the question is: would it help, would it be worth the complexity and ambiguity to do so? Some thing are simply much easier to do with extensions, and extensions are there for exactly these kinds of things.

[Thehandyman1957]

I didn't mean to say that menu customization would be unheard of, because then the extensions doing so wouldn't exist
What is there though is there for a reason, every single entry. It may not necessarily apply to your workflow, but that's nothing strange in an application - when was the last time you used, say, every function that is available in a word processor? Or in a calculator, even?

True indeed For some reason I was thinking this was Burger King. You want fries with that?

[Eleventy_Threeve]

Menu Wizard is also our favorite menu editor. There are others though. Just pick one you like and you can make the menus over however you want.

[Brian]

I could have sworn you could right click and delete these items, but obviously not, as I was just trying to remove the RSS Subscribe to this Page link. So there's no way to remove that, correct?

[New Tobin Paradigm]

That was before the "Places" System which assimilated Bookmarks, History, and Downloads over time. See, unlike the old Netscape style bookmarks the HTML file and thus the Bookmarks Menu isn't the top level anymore. So Bookmarks Menu, Bookmarks Toolbar, and "Unsorted Bookmarks" are all on the same level now inside an sqlite db. So you can't delete those top levels.

[Moonchild]

Unlocking by request for update

[BenFenner]

I finally got a chance to work on hiding Bookmark Toolbar items I'm not interested in using this helpful post by Blacklab in another thread. After 7 years I finally have the trim bookmarks menu I've always wanted. The code in the linked post was not current or didn't work for me, but I managed to find the right UI element IDs (and in one case just a class, no ID).

Here is what I ended up with for my userChrome.css file:

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/* --- Bookmarks Menu - Hide Unwanted Items --- */
/* Inspired by: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=30106&p=241682#p241696 */

#subscribeToPageMenuitem,
#subscribeToPageMenupopup,
#bookmarksToolbarFolderMenu,
#bookmarksToolbarSeparator,
#menu_unsortedBookmarks,
.hide-if-empty-places-result
{ 
  display: none !important;
}

Before and after:

SDrNfAP.png

Off-topic:
I'd like to embed the image above but the forum won't let me. (Even though it embedded properly years ago in the original post above.)
It gives me this error:
"It was not possible to determine the dimensions of the image. Please verify that the URL you entered is correct."

[Moonchild]

Off-topic:
Not sure why you're having issues attaching; I did it for you, instead, and it worked fine here. Maybe stripping too much from http requests?

[BenFenner]

Off-topic:
I was not trying to attach it, I was trying to embed it. I assume if you try that you'll see the same error.
Here is the URL again since it was removed from my post: http://i.imgur.com/SDrNfAP.png

[adoxa]

Off-topic:
I believe it's an issue with the forum software. (If you click your link in the browser you'll get imgur's page containing the image; open about:config, adjust network.http.accept.navigation to remove text/html and now you'll just get the image.)