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An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager

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Re: An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager

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Post by codemac »

bradleyland wrote: post #25
codemac wrote: post #21

Can anyone describe what happened to the chrome bookmarks manager? I've been happily off in Firefox land, I have no idea what this hubub is about.

They redesigned the bookmark manager with a very Android-ish looking interface, where bookmark folders were represented as "blocks", similar to the Windows 8 start screen. It suffered from a few problems: * Massive decrease in information density compared to the tree & list widgets of the "old style" bookmark manager. * Clunky interactions. I'm pretty damn good with a computer, and I regularly ended up with bookmarks…

Thank you for the overview. Now looking at that separate "extension" that has the new behavior... I see what people are complaining about.

Re: An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager

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Post by castell »

Manishearth wrote: post #14
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. M…

I would consider to contribute to Servo and Servo-shell. But my dev PC is Win7. And dog fooding only works when you use it for your own usage too.

Re: An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager

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Post by Flenser »

h43k3r wrote: post #12
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…

> the Universal Windows Apps Platform which is going to be launched with Win 10 ... it won't be possible ... to run on Win 7

"Universal App Platform" Oh, the irony.

Thanks for letting us know why Edge won't be on Win 7.

Re: An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager

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Post by Manishearth »

castell wrote: post #32
Manishearth wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. M…

I would consider to contribute to Servo and Servo-shell. But my dev PC is Win7. And dog fooding only works when you use it for your own usage too.

servo-shell should work in Firefox too if you want to contribute.
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