Getting Your Most Used Favorites Onto Your Browser Bar

Note: The instructions below for each browser assumes that the page you want to bookmark is showing on your screen. If it isn’t, you can use Google or another search engine to find it and bring it up.

IE 8 – current version of Internet Explorer

Click the yellow star icon with the green arrow on it.

Your page instantly appears on the far left of your Bookmarks / Favorites bar, right next to the icon you clicked on.

To give it a shorter name so that you have more room for other favorites, right click on the current name of your bookmark/favorite and choose Rename.

IE – earlier versions

Click on Favorites written on the Menu Bar (as opposed to an icon for Favorites.)

Click on Add To Favorites on the drop-down menu.

Shorten the name of the site if desired. (If you want to rename it later, you can right click on the name & choose Rename.)

Click on Links on the list below.

Click OK.

Firefox 3.6.8 (current version)

Click on Bookmarks on the menu bar.

Click on Bookmark This Page on the drop-down menu.

When the “Page Bookmarked” pop-up appears, name bookmark with a short name.

In the Folder slot choose Bookmarks Toolbar on the drop-down list.

Click on Done.

Safari 5.0.1 (current version)

Click the + (to the left of the address bar on your browser)

On the pop-up menu choose a name for the site.

Be sure that Bookmarks Bar is what is showing in the drop-down menu slot.

Click on Add.

To determine which version of your browser that you have: Click on Help on your browser menu bar and move your mouse down to About (it’s usually the last thing on the list), and click it. Here you will find the version that you have. This (Help / About) is also where you find the version of your desktop programs.

--Ann Finley, August 2010