Toolbar Thinger
This is the extension for those that are finding the bookmark and search options on the toolbar a little limited. With this installed you can add as many search bars as you like. As many bookmark folders as you like. You can even add individual bookmarks wherever you like on your toolbars.
Once installed, just go to View - Toolbars - Customize and drag any of the four items beneath the normal list onto your toolbars. When you drop one a set of options may be displayed to configure that particular item.
You can add each item as many times as you like, just keep going till you run out of space!
Whenever the customize dialog is displayed many of your added items have an extra button next to them that when clicked will display the item’s options.
If you drag the items away from the toolbars you will be give the option to either delete the item, or keep it in the toolbar palette, retaining any options you have already set on the item.
You get to add any of four different types of items:
- Bookmark links - Add a single bookmark wherever you like onto your toolbars. Including livemarks and folders which expand as you would expect.
- Bookmark toolbars - Choose any bookmark folder and get it displayed just like the regular bookmarks toolbar.
- Search bars - Just like the standard search bar. Put it wherever you like and choose the search engine you want to use with it. Supports all the standard features like search suggestions and history.
- Script items - For the more adventurous, lets you add a button onto the toolbar and write some custom javascript to run when the button is clicked. The code runs with full chrome privileges.
Available features:
The Toolbar Thinger is currently under active development and as such certain features of the standard bookmark toolbars/menus are not yet fully working in the additional items you can add with this extension. The following lists the features which I currently believe are working.
Due to the new bookmarks code about to land in current nightlies, the bookmarks aspect of this extension may not behave so well in Minefield builds.
The following table shows the current state of features in different versions of Firefox.
| Feature | Firefox 1.5.0.x | Firefox 2 |
| Bookmark toolbars | Yes | Yes |
| Overflow menu | Yes | Yes |
| Context menu | No | No |
| Drag and drop | No | No |
| Bookmark links | Yes | Yes |
| Context menu | No | No |
| Drag and drop | No | No |
| Search bars | No | Yes |
| Script items | Yes | Yes |
(Installs from addons.mozilla.org)
Comments
April 18, 2008
Jiten
thanks for this great addon, i now have a seperate search toolbar having 8 diff searches. There are a few issues i ll like to point out.
Many of the firefox themes dont fit the search toolbar i.e few search bars are hidden out of the 8 & i can only see 5 or 6 searchbars.
Whenevr i try & clear history of firefox, these search bars dont clear their history while the main search bar does.I hope these will be fixed in the next version.
April 17, 2008
Curry
Oh, geez, and now I fix it. If you move the bookmark toolbar itself to be on another toolbar, the favicons will load like they’re supposed to. Sorry for being obnoxious.
April 17, 2008
Curry
Addition: This is just if I have the bookmark button on a toolbar other than the actual Bookmarks toolbar, which is the whole reason I have this extension installed. The icons show up just fine on the normal Bookmarks toolbar.
April 17, 2008
Curry
Every time I reopen Firefox, the favicons on my toolbar disappear. They come back on visiting the ’site, but this is _really_ annoying. ): I tried downloading the Favicon Picker in hopes that that might keep them from disappearing, but no dice. The icons show up all the time in my bookmark folder, so I really don’t understand why they won’t stay present on the toolbar?
I don’t have any of the “delete my cache” options checked — I made sure. Anybody have any suggestions?
April 10, 2008
Rainbow
Great extension again (I’m really fan of TabSidebar…) ! The multiple search bar is good.
Thanks a lot.
@Fred : once installed just “right-click somewhere on your chrome” and choose “customize”. Then Drag and Drop any item you want from the bottom of the customization window… No need to get some option for this one.
April 3, 2008
Fred
I can’t get it to work (at all) can anyone give me a nudge in the right direction? The options button for the addon is disabled!!!
March 31, 2008
zeltak
Hi
I LOVE this plugin, its my all time favorite. Ive just upgraded ubuntu (my OS) and it comes with firefox 3 beta4, is there any chance for a new compatible version anytime?
thx alot for your hard work
Zeltak
March 16, 2008
Seiren
I’m having the same problem as Bob and Wayney with the bookmark toolbar. Deleting localstore.rdf does not solve the problem. This would be a great addon if it worked
March 12, 2008
Firefoxer
Hey, nice tool!
But, if I add a second bookmark toolbar under the default/existing one it won’t show up. (If I put the new (second) bookmark toolbar above the default one, it will show up, but the default one won’t.)
So I can’t display _two_ bookmark toolbar…some other users complained about the same so it might be a bug…Please help out! Thanks & Greets from CH
March 9, 2008
Anzo
Yeah, make it for 3.x please. Thanks ![]()
March 8, 2008
H0lmes
Hello, Could you make it available for Firefox 3.0 beta ?
February 27, 2008
Tailspin
When I try to add a toolbar the folder I chose simply is appended to the end of the existing bookmark toolbar. How to I add another toolbar below the one that is there?
February 26, 2008
Wayney
Update: Deleting the localstore.rdf does NOT fix the problem I described.
February 26, 2008
Wayney
I love this extension for the ability to add bookmark toolbars. My only problem is that like Bob, my favicons disappear and any folders I have on the tool bar use just a page favicon. If I click on the icon in the bar, it opens every bookmark in that folder, which is not what I need to be doing since some of my bookmark folders on that bar have anywhere from 10-50 bookmarked pages in them. I can’t use the drop down menu for a folder to see the links contained in it until I customize the toolbar. After I go to customize toolbar, it works perfectly with each folder having the drop down menu on click.
The below suggestion for the fix of a corrupt localstore.rdf would probably work great IF I did not have multiple other toolbars that I am not having problems with and do not want to reset. My regular bookmarks toolbar is fine. My changes made to my menus toolbar, my nav bar and my other personal toolbar I made are fine. I hate resetting them for one thing that does not work. Is there a way to make any created bookmark bars work correctly without resorting to deleting the corrupt localstore.rdf?
February 20, 2008
Bob
Extension works great except for favicons set on the bookmark links disappear whenever Firefox is started up. I have to go and bring up the customize toolbar window and close it for the icons to re-appear.
June 29, 2007
v3n0m
wow, long did i search for the power to add more search bars…
many thanks to you!
June 15, 2007
Ron
Thanks,
This is exactly what I was looking for. This is a great addition.
Thanks,
Ron
June 13, 2007
Gertlex
Hey. Thanks for not completely abandoning the additional bookmarks toolbar idea. I’d kept your old extension (for just the bookmark toolbar, i believe it was your) and even updated the install file so that it would work with FF2.0 when that appeared.
This extension appears to be identical in feature… I’d hoped for one particular improvement: Can you make it so that bookmarks on new toolbars can be dragged to different spots on the toolbar and/or to the default bookmark bar?
Thanks, rock on.
•Gert
June 11, 2007
foo bar
I love your thinger! It is one of the most useful extensions I have because I like to have several bookmark bars. Are there going to be any updates beyond 1.0b2?
May 25, 2007
Georg
This is so useful! Thanx a lot
May 4, 2007
Dean
My favorite/most useful firefox extension.
If anyone having problem with changes to toolbar reset themselves after you close firefox here’s the fix:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolbar_customizations_reset_on_startup
April 16, 2007
Ferdinand Soethe
Thinger is great and worked for me under Windows. I loved it.
Now that I try it under Ubunty Edgy it doesn’t seem to work for some reason. First indicator is that I have to restart FF twice after installing Thinger. After that Thinger shows as an installed plugin but I don’t get the extra items in the toolbar customization dialog. Any ideas?
March 28, 2007
Jason
This would be so cool if only it didn’t reset everytime I shut down Firefox
March 21, 2007
king
I’ve been looking all over for this. Fantastic!!!! Now I can organize my busy day.
Thanks!!!
March 20, 2007
peterpoe
Very nice. Would be great if users could share bookmark toolbars and post them to a website.
March 5, 2007
bob draper
Would be great IFit worked!!!
March 2, 2007
Aki
This is great! Thanks!
March 2, 2007
Leafnode
It’s great! The thing I was looking for. Only feature I’d be happy to see in future is changing bookmark order using drag&drop.
February 24, 2007
Foo
This is really awesome — thanks!
Now, if D’n'D would work this thing would be perfect.
January 31, 2007
Mossop
The new beta (1.0b2) should fix compatibility issues with All in one Sidebar.
January 31, 2007
Andrew
This is exactly what I wanted Thinger owns !
(if you were having problems restarting Firefox afterwards try uninstalling All In One Toolbar, this is far more use imho anyway)
January 30, 2007
Jose
Same problem here. Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Windows XP. Been waiting a long time for the functionality in this extension, but unfortunately firefox won’t even start with it installed. Maybe it’s a compatibility thing? Other extensions I have include: all in one sidebar, tab mix plus, greasemonkey, forecastfox, web developer, firebug, sage, quicknote, showcase, image zoom, searchbar autosizer, searchwp, searchbox sync, translate, View Rendered Source, Fetch Text URL, search status, uppity, conquery, ie view, Ook video ook, autofill, nuke anything enhanced, save text area, clear cache button, triple select, adblock plus.
January 11, 2007
Babar
Hi,
Toolbar Thinger is a great application ! But it doesn’t work with All-in-One Sidebar’s Extension on my Windows XP
Thanks for your works and Good Luck !
1.5 - 3.0a3

April 22, 2008
adxalf
Great extension, but is it possible to put bookmarks in the statusbar? That would be great!