User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0 Build ID: 20170710030203 Steps to reproduce: Since we are approaching Firefox era without XUL extensions I would like to open a request for an option to turn off favicons on bookmarks toolbar and maybe with the second option to show only favicons without a text. The second option is available in Microsoft Edge also. I've been using bookmarks toolbar without favicons for a several years. The benefit is a much cleaner modern interface and more bookmarks available right under URL bar. Especially on lower resolution displays it is very handy. From my point of view it doesn't look very complex. Currently I'm using basically 4 lines for this via userstyle. #PlacesToolbar .bookmark-item .toolbarbutton-icon { display: none !important; } #personal-bookmarks toolbarbutton { padding: 0 5px !important; } 9 years ago in Bug 437682 it was wontfixed since extensions could do it (however I'm not requesting option for each individual favicon). Now I think this will be not possible starting from Firefox 57 so please reevaluate it. Will be really appreciated and Firefox will have something others do not have.

doesn't browser.chrome.favicons work? Regardless, userStyles will still be supported after 57, there should be no problem for those to keep working for a while yet.

Well.. at least for me browser.chrome.favicons is doing nothing, not sure if it's broken or how its supposed to work. The second thing is how it will look as I'm talking also about removing a gap after removed favicon to have maximum benefit of it. Regarding userstyles after 57 I'm a bit worried since version 57 with Webextension is supposed to allow only a very limited browser UI tweaks as far as I know.

(In reply to Eddward from comment #0) > second option to show only favicons without a text. You can blank bookmark name to get this effect.

They're suggesting userchrome.css but just imagine how cool will be having a section inside options with some simple ui tweaks that can be enabled like ctr. I mean it's hardly any bloat cause it can just edit the userchorme file, it can be hidden behind an Advanced settings checkbox or something so the new "inexperienced" users that firefox is trying to attract don't accidentally blow themselves up. And it'll be a great opportunity to add a way to apply userchrome changes without restarting firefox, advanced users will appreciate that too. This tweaks can be just some simple stuff disable/enable favicons, throbbers, specific animations, maybe enabling drag on all elements, etc...

(In reply to Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.) from comment #3) > (In reply to Eddward from comment #0) > > second option to show only favicons without a text. > You can blank bookmark name to get this effect. Well, yes, of course, but it's a workaround only. Edge has an option for it if you right click on bookmarks bar. Anyway this topic is mainly about the removing favicons from bookmarks toolbar which has not even such a workaround AFAIK. If there is 100% certainty that these 4 lines of code will work for Firefox 57 and beyond, I'm fine with that. But still better have it as an option in Firefox to keep browser attractive as highly customizable after 57 when 90% of addons will be dead.

> You can blank bookmark name to get this effect. Afaik the default behavior is to show URL if the name is empty, and even if it works removing the name of all bookmarks is a lot of work for the user and can't be easily reversed so it's not an option, userchrome is the way to go, but will require a minimum knowledge of css that not all users want to learn. Making a UI tweak section in options could be beneficial and worth discussing it on a meeting.

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [::mak] (Away 4-20 August) from comment #1) > doesn't browser.chrome.favicons work? > > Regardless, userStyles will still be supported after 57, there should be no > problem for those to keep working for a while yet. Since Stylish addon is dead now, userStyles are basically not working anymore. Similar Webextension Stylus addon can modify only webpages, browser.chrome.favicons pref does nothing, and userChrome.css is not working also(or I'm doing something wrong). So, how it will be supported after 57 ? I don't know. Currently there is still very simple legacy "Hide Favicons" addon, which does the job, but sooner or later will be dead as well. Or are there any plans to provide such API for Webextensions ? At least, if possible someone please CC the right UI/UX/Pref guys what do they think about it. I truly believe there is a real benefit for users, especially when Firefox is moving away from "UI customization" addons. I'm fine with a low priority also.

Duping forward to bug 1428859 as that has slightly more information.