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If you set Safari's Home Page address (Safari: Preferences, General tab) to bookmarks://, you can display the Bookmark Manager by clicking the Home button in Safari's main toolbar.

I use this trick to get a clickable icon for the bookmark screen without sacrificing the additional (albeit small) real estate consumed by the Bookmarks Bar.
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Create a Safari toolbar button for the bookmark manager
Authored by: rhowell on Oct 28, '05 07:27:39AM

This is a nice hint. Thank you.



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A simpler solution.
Authored by: bolah1313 on Oct 28, '05 08:55:51AM

This is a great hint. Rather than using the mouse you can also type "Command + Shift + H" to go to your home page when you've setup Safari according to this hint. Also, you could simply use the keyboard shortcut "command + Option + b" to get to the bookmark manager without changing your home page which I usually have set to blank to save time when launching Safari or any browser for that matter.

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Create a Safari toolbar button for the bookmark manager
Authored by: sjk on Oct 28, '05 02:49:39PM
I use this trick to get a clickable icon for the bookmark screen without sacrificing the additional (albeit small) real estate consumed by the Bookmarks Bar.

You've removed the book icon for "Show all bookmarks" from the far left end of the Bookmarks Bar?

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Create a Safari toolbar button for the bookmark manager
Authored by: osxpounder on Oct 28, '05 03:47:57PM

Good question. A quick search of this site turned up no hints on how to remove the Bookmarks icon from the Bookmarks Bar, but I thought I had once removed it. I can't recall how, if ever I did.

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Create a Safari toolbar button for the bookmark manager
Authored by: anoved on Oct 28, '05 04:39:04PM

No, I haven't removed the "open book" button from the bookmarks bar - I meant that I have a different bookmarks button that's still available even when I've concealed the entire bookmarks bar with "Hide Bookmarks Bar" (under the View menu).

As a previous comment suggests, the keyboard equivalent is certainly the quickest way to access the bookmarks. This is just a different, and possibly more compact, way to get the same functionality with the mouse.

- Jim, aka Anonymous



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Create a Safari toolbar button for the bookmark manager
Authored by: sjk on Oct 28, '05 11:10:18PM

Thanks for clarifying that your hint would be most useful with the Bookmarks Bar hidden. It's sort of redundant when the BB is visible since you can just click the "Show all bookmarks" icon (osxpounder: I didn't want to try removing it by dragging it since if that worked I wasn't sure how to get it back :-)). Most of the time I use the option-command-B shortcut. And shift-command-B is a shortcut for toggling the BB visibility.



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Create a Safari toolbar button for the bookmark manager
Authored by: osxpounder on Oct 31, '05 03:10:36PM

Thanks for the clarification, Jim! Good hint.

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Create a Safari toolbar button for the bookmark manager
Authored by: jmakeig on Oct 28, '05 10:11:59PM

On a realted note, does anyone know all of the available protocols in Mac OS X (e.g. webcal:// and bookmarks://). I can't seem to be able to find a comprehensive list.



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URLs
Authored by: sjk on Oct 28, '05 10:56:15PM
Try installing the RCDefaultApp preference pane and looking under its URLs tab.

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