batguebi01: 10.7: Hide Reading List in Safari's bookmarks bar

Monday, 25 July 2011

10.7: Hide Reading List in Safari's bookmarks bar

In Lion, Reading List was added to Safari. It appears, by default, in the Bookmarks Bar. If you're like me and have little space to spare up there, it can be useful to get rid of the Reading List icon if you don't use it, or move it up to the Toolbar instead.

To get rid of the icon in the menu bar, open Terminal and run this command:

defaults write com.apple.Safari ProxiesInBookmarksBar '("Top Sites")'

Then, if you want to add it to the toolbar, go to View » Customize Toolbar and drag in a Reading List icon.

If you want to add Reading List back to the bookmarks bar in the future, run this command in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari ProxiesInBookmarksBar '("Top Sites","Reading List")'

[crarko adds: You have to restart Safari for the 'defaults' change to take effect.]