As per the screenshot in the article, you can select the “Show BookMarks Bar” whicheaa
will toggle the visibility of this feature. It will give you a little more vertical browsing space on a smaller height laptop, but to little to gain much on anything but the smallest of MacBook Airs.
Once customized, I find it quite valuable, as each are attached to keyboard shortcuts. It I were to put osxhelp.com as the first item, a quick press of command -1 will get me there. The same for the second and third as well.
Though at the end of the day, it is totally up tobthecuser how valuable the Bookmarks Barcis. I find that it is indespensible.
I do belive this article as well as the multiple comments by users, should explain the issue rather well.
Good luck!
]]>However, to get them as Chrome has done can’t be done natively. I would be willing to bet there is a Safar extension that allows for the change in behavior. There’s thousands of them now that dons wide range of cosmetic alterations to Safari.
I have found that with font characters and single letters I can get quite a few bookmarks in my bookmarks bar and I memorize them pretty quick. The first 5 I don’t even worry about since those can be activated by the command -1-5 keyboard sequence.
Many of the rest I end up not going to as often as I thought so I get rid of them, or put more than one bookmark in the item to make a category I can open many at once.
Try searching for a Safari extension to modify Safari’s native behavior. Aside from that, you may have to resort to some of the trickery I have to get closer.
]]>If much has changed since your last backup, I would save a copy of the current ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist file, restore the old one, drag the target restore folder you want to your desktop temporarily, and then return back to your pre-backup ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist file. Then, import the temporary backup you made on your Desktop.
This should get you back to where you were before this happened, keeping things the same as they are right now, with the addition of the old files bookmarks being returned,
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