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RShep33
Strollin' around
Status: In review

I use my bookmarks toolbar as a quick access for a lot of my links - on the left, i have the websites i browse every day, and then i have a bunch of folders in which i have all the other websites, organized by category (news, social networks, etc.).
While it's possible to give whatever name to the folders (including emojis), I wondered if it was possible to replace the folder icon by a customizable emoji - this would allow to put the newspaper emoji for the news folder, for example. It would also allow to only have an emoji (and no text nor folder icon) in order to gain space on the bookmarks toolbar.
I'm joining a picture of my current setup (on top), and what a setup with emoji replacing the folder icons would look like.

Emojis as Folder icons.png

20 Comments
kremlinbot
Making moves

It'll also make it easier to distinct bookmark folders with no name, which is good for compact setups!

Chevy
Strollin' around

Same here. Please make it happen, Mozilla!

rustplane
New member

I was looking for the same thing.  You do get used to using the favicons for bookmarks, but I find that you do that in conjunction with the site name or abbreviation you edit it down to.  So for example when you then put your news feeds into a folder and label it "News", it's harder to differentiate and access quickly because all the folder outlines look the same.  So perhaps I don't need to have a favicon for news, but just be able to put the folder name inside the folder outline and manipulate the color of the folder.  That would really help. 

kremlinbot
Making moves

Any progress on this one? Really looking forwards towards this feature being finally implemented.

chasingluck
New member

Hello, developer community at Firefox!

We have a new feature request for you: the ability to change the favicon of a website or bookmark to an emoji of your choice. This would allow for great customization while using web apps and would help keep Firefox at par with other browsers like Arc that already offer this functionality.

We hope you will consider this feature request and help us make Firefox more fun and user-friendly. Thank you for your hard work and dedication!

Vibrax
New member

I really dislike the current icons, it's just depression.

homebanjo
Strollin' around

Removing identical folders that require labelling and replacing them with a descriptive emoji, within a folder, would be a game changer.

Personally, it would free up at least 20% of my toolbar, and my folders have no more 3 letters each - for example I have F for football, G for games, SoP for shopping and CaR for, well, car of course.  I imagine a world where folder icons might display a football, a controller, a carrier bag and a wheel within instead. 

I wouldn't bookmark them myself, but for sites a person might frequent whilst relaxing in a gentlemanly manner may I suggest a minor chess piece for the folders icon?

news8000
New member

FOLLOWING!!!!

2mustange
Strollin' around

This feature along with many other bookmark recommendations would be very welcome to make the experience so much easier to manage websites.

BlackWizard
New member

I would very much like this to become a thing with Bookmarks in general. But there is a way you can remove the folder icon from the bookmarks toolbar through userChrome.css, which would allow you to achieve the look that you want by naming your folder with the emoji that you want. I've only copied the relevant parts from the following sources:

Source: How to remove folder icons in Bookmarks Toolbar
Source: UserChrome.css - Hiding SUBmenu options

 

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once - remove if you are adding to an existing userChrome.css*/

/* hide icons for bookmark folders */
#personal-bookmarks .bookmark-item[container="true"] .toolbarbutton-icon {
 display:none!important;
}
menu.bookmark-item > .menu-iconic-left {
display:none!important;
}