One of my biggest Firefox pet peeves over the years has been how it handles dragging a boomark to the Bookmarks Toolbar on a Mac (apparently this doesn’t happen on Windows).  Here’s a screenshot of how it’s been up through FF2.0:

This tooltip that shows up when you drag the favicon down to the toolbar could be helpful I guess…the first time.  But the problem is that tooltip blocks all the space under it on the toolbar, so you can’t actually add the bookmark to any folders you have underneath it.  Unless you’re super quick and get to it before the tooltip comes up.  There are ways around it (put the bookmark somewhere else and move it afterwards), but it’s still really annoying.  I looked into how to fix it a while ago and found this work-around, but it removes ALL tooltips in your browser.

Anyways, it’s something I’ve begrudgingly learned to live with.  Until now!  The beta version of Firefox 3 (3.0b5) finally lets you add a bookmark to the middle of your Bookmarks Toolbar!  So instead of instructing people how to add a bookmark, it has a new tooltip about the current webpage’s identity information, but you can still add a bookmark under it:

After a second of hovering over the tooltip, the folder the favicon is over will expand so you can drop the favicon into the folder.  And after 6 or 7 seconds the tooltip disappears altogether.  AND sometimes when you drag it doesn’t even show the tooltip at all.  Thank goodness!

So what’s that identity information message?  A webpage’s favicon is more separate from the web address as a button (in FF2 it’s in the URL box)…and if you click on the favicon it will open a box telling more about the “identity information”:

If you’re on a secure website (starting with “https”), that’s where it will give the identity information:

The “More Information” takes you to the Security tab of the Page Info box.  I guess that’s a nice feature, but I doubt I’ll use it.

So color me excited about this in Firefox 3.  Yeah, it’s probably the least exciting new feature about FF3 but this has been too annoying for too long.  Any other FF3ers out there?  What’s your favorite part about it?

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