don't use the Bookmarks Toolbar and want to reclaim the space it uses, you can hide the toolbar by choosing View Toolbars Bookmarks Toolbar. So how do you get a bookmark onto the Bookmarks Toolbar? The toolbar automatically displays any bookmarks you have placed in the special Bookmarks Toolbar Folder. You can add bookmarks to this folder just as you would to any other folder: by choosing it from the list in the Add Bookmark window, as I describe in Step 4 in the earlier section, "Creating a bookmark." As soon as you add the bookmark to the folder, it appears on the toolbar. There's a faster way to add Web sites to the Bookmarks Toolbar. Visit any Web site and look to the left of the Web site's address in the Firefox Location Bar. In most cases, you see the Location Bar icon. In some cases, you see a special image representing the Web site you're viewing (for example, when you're visiting CNN.com, you see the CNN logo). In either case, the image that appears represents a link to the Web site you're viewing. You can drag the image into an e-mail to send a link to the page to your friend. In this case, it also means you can drag the image down to the Bookmarks Toolbar to create a bookmark to the page.   The impersonal toolbar The Bookmarks Toolbar seems so simple and innocent-you'd hardly guess it was the cause of many a shouting match at Netscape, the original browser company. Because the toolbar is prominent yet largely empty by default, it was an appetizing target for Netscape marketers with dollar signs on the brain. After all, why not fill the bar with advertising links? Asking the Marketing department to leave the toolbar alone was like asking them to pass up a Super Bowl ad or leave the side of a bus blank - it just wasn't happening. Instead, the Netscape 6 browser shipped with a bevy of advertising and other buttons that didn't behave like regular bookmarks and were difficult to remove manually. Now for the ultimate irony-the bar was known as the Personal Toolbar. In Firefox, we drew a line in the sand early on that the bar would be your bar and no one else's. The bar includes two bookmarks by default: a Getting Started link and a live bookmark that contains the latest BBC News headlines, The first helps you get comfortable with Firefox, and the second introduces you to our innovative Live Bookmarks technology (which I discuss elsewhere in this chapter). Neither makes us money, and you can remove them just like any other bookmark - by right-clicking and choosing Delete. We've also retired the tragically ironic Personal moniker and called it what it is: your Bookmarks Toolbar.   Changing the bookmarks displayed on the toolbar Firefox allows advanced users to change which folder's bookmarks the Bookmarks Toolbar displays. This can be handy if you have a lot of bookmarks and you've already organized them thoroughly into folders. For example, suppose you have a folder called News Sites and you want the bookmarks in this folder to be displayed on the Bookmarks Toolbar. You can simply designate the News Sites folder as the folder to use for the Bookmarks Toolbar: 1. 2. In the pane on the right, select the folder you want to designate as the Bookmarks Toolbar folder. 3. The Bookmarks Toolbar immediately updates to display this new folder's bookmarks. Tip Note that after you do this the first time, the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder still has the same name, but it is just a regular folder now; its bookmarks aren't reflected in the toolbar. Be sure to rename this folder to avoid confusion. Deleting bookmarks from the Bookmarks Toolbar