firefox 3 beta 5 default theme wastes horizontal space for bookmarks

[Helge Stenström]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

On the bookmark toolbar in the default theme, there is a little triangle for folders, after the folder name. It is totally redundant. The space it occupies makes fewer bookmarks and bookmark folders fit on the horizontal line.
Some other themes are more compact, but lack the over all quality of the default theme.
This is a usability bug.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 8 20:27:44 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic i686

[st33med (st33med)]

I believe that just indicates that it is a drop down menu instead of being a bookmark. Example: I would be confused if the RSS symbol were showing on a bookmark and a RSS. If there were no triangle, it would be very confusing.

[Helge Stenström (h-stenstrom)]

I disagree that it would be confusing. It is not confusing in Firefox 2. Folder icons and RSS icons have drop-down menus; custom icons (web-site originated) don't.

I sync my bookmarks between several computers, using Foxmarks. On the computers running Firefox 3, some of my bookmarks on the bookmark toolbar are not visible, although the same computers have higher x-resolution (like 1680 pixels). Most items in my bookmark toolbar are folders, and they have short names, so that many can fit horizontally. With Firefox 3, I have to remove some, re-organize them, or abbreviate the names even more. The automatic folder Smart Bookmarks add to the problem.

If there was an option to remove the triangle from the bookmark toolbar, I would use it.