I've got room for 15 bookmarks along my Firefox toolbar. What have you got up there?
So far I have:
Hacker News, Share on Posterous, Shorten with bit.ly, The Funded, Tumblr, Twitter, Kickstarter, Presspack it, BBC News, Virtual Worlds News, Crunchbase.
My toolbar is full of links to bugs and other tasks I need to get done. This way I am constantly reminded that there are things I need to work on and when I finish something I can simply click the bookmark and fill in all the missing details or close a task without having to go to the bugtracker or the calendar first. It works pretty well for me.
Why just 15? I have folders with folders full of bookmarks in mine. Generally I have links to sites like you mentioned in a folder called "Common" and, when needed, I access it from there. My root-level bookmarks tend to be more internal (i.e. admin tools for working on various web apps) and bug/task oriented like nimbix said.