Use StumbleUpon Without the Toolbar

Posted on Sep 21, 2007 in Usability

Stumble This!I love StumbleUpon as much as the next guy, but the toolbar they provide is quickly becoming cluttered with stuff I don’t really care about viewing. I can understand why they want to get more social and interactive – but the main attraction was to browse through web sites other had marked as interesting.

Since nobody has made a StumbleUpon “light” edition toolbar I was out to seek a way to do much of the functionality I like but maybe via javascript or a bookmarklet. That is when I happened to run across a page that promised to be the toolbarless StumbleUpon.

Here is the bookmarklet you’ll need to give a thumbs up to something and review. Just drag and drop this link onto your Firefox bookmarks bar.

Stumble This!

Apparently I’m not alone. Found this on a few other web sites as well – and makes me wish that StumbleUpon would maybe create a lighter version of the toolbar. Maybe even roll out a secondary extension that just gives me a stumble button to push. Till then though this bookmarklet should do the trick.

View Comments to “Use StumbleUpon Without the Toolbar”

  1. Carter-Ann Sep 22, 2007 at 5:02 am #

    Thanks for the tip.

  2. slaptijack Sep 22, 2007 at 10:27 am #

    I agree, a light version is needed.

    Or maybe just the option to add or remove buttons from the toolbar so that I can pare it down to just what I need.

  3. esvl Sep 26, 2007 at 7:22 am #

    Interesting, I agree the old toolbar was nice and simple.

  4. AussieRodney Sep 27, 2007 at 6:47 am #

    Huh? I just removed everything from the SU toolbar except SU, up, down & inbox. Than I stuck it on the end of one of the other toolbar lines. Who needs a “light” edition?

  5. ScottishGraeme Oct 04, 2007 at 7:14 am #

    I totally agree with AussieRodney.
    Well it’s what I did too.

  6. sir lolzors Nov 11, 2007 at 7:11 am #

    or just go ctrl+F11 to hide stumble bar and same again to get it back :P

  7. ap Dec 09, 2007 at 4:33 am #

    soo true. thanks so much!

  8. Andy MacDonald Feb 03, 2008 at 6:10 pm #

    What a great tip. thanks so much. I was actually searching the net for why my stumble toolbar wont appear in firefox, but you have just given me a very easy solution. Thanks.

    Andy

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