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Toolbar Buttons Firefox

By admin, December 24, 2009 6:47 am

Is there a way of creating a button that shows or hides a particular toolbar in Firefox?

I have a toolbar installed for doing academic research in Firefox, but I only want it to show when I’m doing work.

I know I could use View>Toolbars and then select or deselect it as required, but is there a way of having a button on the standard toolbar that does the same thing – much like, say, the Drawing button in Word, which shows/hides the Drawing toolbar?
The Personal Toolbar Button is almost what I want, but I’d like it to work with the Eduserve Athens toolbar, and with Firefox v2.0.0.3. I have absolutely no idea on how to write a Firefox extension myself!

I am sure there is but it may require writing a small extension to do this. There may even be an extension out there to do this. You could look at the personal toolbar button extension,

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3382

The other way you can do this is with the profile switcher.

Create a short cut to firefox and then modify the target to
firefox.exe -ProfileManager

Then create a new profile which you customise to your acamdemic requirements. then when you want to switch you can use this short cut again.

Try http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile for more info

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