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Re: An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager

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Post by paublyrne »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #3
paublyrne wrote: post #2

I'm certainly happy about this (at least for now) reversion. It is frustrating when a product you use loses functionality in the name of progress. For me, the basic functionality was folder selection to save the new bookmark into, which no longer seemed to work in the last release.

It did actually, but it was just not very clear and took a number of clicks to do.

Typing the name of the folder you wanted as a search did not work, or at least the behaviour was erratic.

You needed to use the mouse to drill through to find the dir you wanted.

Re: An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager

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Post by h43k3r »

castell wrote: post #6

Good that Google reverted it back and don't bring it back - keep it optional. I am just moving away from IE11 (as Edge won't come to Win7) and Chrome is a good alternative and the bookmark functionality was fine. If there would be Servo build for Win7, I would use it.

I asked this question ( Why no Edge for Win 7) to one of the developers concerned with Edge development during BUILD Tour.

He told me that Edge is built on the Universal Windows Apps Platform which is going to be launched with Win 10. So because of its dependency, it won't be possible for edge to run on Win 7. The good thing about this is that MS is using the same platform that they will give to developers, to build Edge.

So people shouldn't hope that at some point Edge will come to Linux or Max OSX.

Re: An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager

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Post by Manishearth »

castell wrote: post #6

Good that Google reverted it back and don't bring it back - keep it optional. I am just moving away from IE11 (as Edge won't come to Win7) and Chrome is a good alternative and the bookmark functionality was fine. If there would be Servo build for Win7, I would use it.

> If there would be Servo build for Win7, I would use it.

Glad to see this confidence in Servo, but ....

Servo isn't ready to be used as a proper browser, even if it did work on Windows (I've been casually trying to port some of it for the past few days, though I'm not familiar enough with MSVC to really do this properly and mingw doesn't work for some of our deps).

It's still missing a lot of DOM features and CSS. Most of these aren't hard to implement, just that there are a lot of them and we haven't gotten around to it.

Its chrome (chrome = stuff that is not the engine), servo-shell (https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell) is pretty rudimentary too. Servo is a browser _engine_ , so stuff like bookmarks are out of its purview. Projects like browser.html and servo-shell can provide these, though. Otherwise I believe it works with the Chromium chrome via CEF.

I contribute a lot to Servo and still don't use it for regular browsing. I do use release builds for googling things whilst studying (generally I just need to load simple html pages and wikipedia, which work awesomely), but not much more. As more and more features get implemented, this should change though :)

Re: An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager

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Post by Mahn »

avera wrote: post #4

For me, problem with old bookmarks manager is that I have to make my own categories to store all items there. It's much easier to just make bookmark without much thinking, knowing that later I can find it by keywords search. This way I'm not affraid that these bookmarks could grow as hard-to-lookup categories jungle. Would be cool if they added tags feature, in case I want to group items.

The thing is, bookmarks were never supposed to be used that way. Bookmarks are shortcuts to frequently used sites, say for instance apps or repos. If you are looking for a way to archive links, you are better off using a service that was designed for archiving like evernote or pocket.

Re: An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager

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Post by Grue3 »

avera wrote: post #4

For me, problem with old bookmarks manager is that I have to make my own categories to store all items there. It's much easier to just make bookmark without much thinking, knowing that later I can find it by keywords search. This way I'm not affraid that these bookmarks could grow as hard-to-lookup categories jungle. Would be cool if they added tags feature, in case I want to group items.

Firefox has bookmark tags and it takes just one click to make a bookmark (it is put into "Unsorted bookmarks" folder, but you can usually find them through typing a relevant keyword into the URL bar)

Re: An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager

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Post by greggman »

I'm sure I'm in the minority here but personally I wish I could opt into Google keeping my bookmarks online and letting me search all the bookmarks including their content AND all my history and its content forever! I'll use incognito mode when I don't want something up there and they already have an online UI to delete stuff from my search history for those few times I forget.

I'm sure other wouldn't like that feature but I'd love it!

Re: An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager

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Post by Immortalin »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #3
paublyrne wrote: post #2

I'm certainly happy about this (at least for now) reversion. It is frustrating when a product you use loses functionality in the name of progress. For me, the basic functionality was folder selection to save the new bookmark into, which no longer seemed to work in the last release.

It did actually, but it was just not very clear and took a number of clicks to do.

If you want to be able to bookmark quickly, you should check out Booklight, it's an open source Chrome plugin for rapid bookmarking via keyboard shortcuts and it also allows you to open bookmarks quickly.

Re: An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager

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Post by tedmiston »

paublyrne wrote: post #2

I'm certainly happy about this (at least for now) reversion. It is frustrating when a product you use loses functionality in the name of progress. For me, the basic functionality was folder selection to save the new bookmark into, which no longer seemed to work in the last release.

I never quite figured out where the bookmark goes when you don't pick a folder.
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