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.
An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager
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#22Can 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.
Maybe someone can give a better description, but you know how sometimes they redesign stuff to make it look "better" (and maybe it does look better) but it ends up being harder to work with? That happened.
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#23Classic UI mistake, increased the amount of clicks and then suffered the user rage.
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#24I'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 featu…
I've been wanting this since day one. I was so excited when i first heard about "Google Bookmarks", and then let down each day when Google seemingly did nothing about integrating Bookmarks into Chrome.
I've pretty much given up on having a good quality, insanely well integrated _(very important imo)_, bookmarking process for Chrome. /shrug
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#25Can 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 in the wrong place.
* The new interface required more clicks to get where you were going, and more clicks to perform common tasks.
Visually, the new style was more aligned with Android interfaces, but it suffered from significant UX flaws.
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#26I'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 featu…
Try pinboard.in
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#27As a heavy bookmarks user, I'm happy they reverted to the more practical old solution
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yeah, this was the biggest annoyance for me as well.
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#29Good 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 other good thing is that Windows 10 is a free upgrade, so if users want the new browser there isn't a purchase barrier stopping them.
Doesn't apply to enterprise licensees, but enterprises aren't known for upgrading to new browser versions even when they're available, so no huge loss there.
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#30I'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 featu…
http://fetching.io does something similar.