The days of the Firefox Web Browser's Bookmarks Toolbar are numbered. Using your browser's vertical space to simply display half a dozen links is a waste of space.

For years Mozilla has touted productivity as one of the top reasons to use Firefox over Internet Explorer. Firefox has advanced the state of the art in web browsing by including tabbed browsing, integrating web search into the browser, and making the location bar "smart." At the same time, Firefox's Bookmarks Toolbar has languished as a series of link users can click to get to the few websites that fit.

Until now.

What was needed was greater flexibility in the use of that space. Sure, there should be access to the websites that are stored in the Bookmarks Toolbar, but there should also be access to the core websites of the web; and more importantly there should be the ability to search any and all of these websites quickly and easily. There should also be integration with RSS feeds, and interaction with the social and bookmarking websites that are fun and useful. What was needed was a rethinking of the Bookmarks Toolbar.

Today we announce the launch of the samfind Bookmarks Bar Firefox Add-On. We have rebuilt Firefox's Bookmarks Toolbar as an Add-On that puts Firefox's emphasis on productivity into the Bookmarks Toolbar and control over the Toolbar in the hands of the user.

"Our goal was to make the Bookmarks Toolbar obsolete by bringing some of the best parts of the web directly into the browser," says Sam Deskin.

We provide integration with existing bookmarks in the Bookmarks Toolbar to make the transition to samfind easy. We have also created an organizational framework that allows for the number of websites on the Bar to be multiplied without taking any more space. That way the core websites of the web can fit onto the Bar and so can social and bookmarking services, so you can Digg, Tweet, and Stumble right from your Bar. And because search is integral to the web, we have brought search to your Bookmarks.

Download the toolbar here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9866