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How To Gain About Half An Inch In Safari

No, this isn’t spam about some weird pump imported from Botswana (although if you need one, just let me know and I’ll grab some messages from my spam filter in Google Apps for ya’). Instead, we’re talking about getting rid of two icons in imaging that can recoup about a half an inch from the Safari bookmarks bar. I’m talking about the reading list and the top sites icons:

To disable the reading glasses and the grid from here, use the defaults command and write an empty payload into the ProxiesInBookmarksBar key in com.apple.Safari, as follows:

defaults write com.apple.Safari ProxiesInBookmarksBar '()'

Or to just disable one of them, write the other into the key. So to disable the reading list only:

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

Or to just disable top sites:

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

Or to get them both back:

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