HOWTO beautify your Bookmarks toolbar
Posted by Jeff August 19, 2006
Is your linkbar a mess like mine? 
Now you can clean it to look like this–
I recently discovered a cool trick: if a site has a favicon, it’s shown by the link text: 
. But you can empty the name:
… while keeping the icon:
If your favorite website doesn’t have an favicon– send them a link to this article!
Update: FavIcon Picker lets you pick and assign your own icons.
You can also create them yourself at favicon.cc.