The People Want a Chrome Bookmarks Side-bar!
Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by Julian West in News, Tips
While Chrome has been rapidly gaining market share, there are still those who find certain features of the Firefox browser essential – some of which Chrome currently lacks. One of these features is a bookmarks sidebar. The most popular answer in the forum topic “Please add a Bookmarks Sidebar on Chrome’s left side. Thank You!” was the following comment: “I won’t switch until Chrome has a Bookmarks Side Bar. I have too many favorites to have them cluttered on the infinity bar.”
Google has implemented sidebar tabs in Chrome browser for Windows which is found in “about:flags”. This feature isn’t available for Mac and Linux versions of Chrome though. For more details, click here.
While currently there is no bookmarks sidebar feature for any version of Chrome, there is a workaround. You can use the “Recent History” extension that makes available your recent history by one click. Note, this is only a work around, what this extension will do is give you access to your recent history, not your bookmarks. Since your bookmarks are usually in your recent history you may find this extension a convenient way to access your most commonly visited web sites.
I have mixed feelings about sidebar features. They are best for larger screens because they take up more screen real-estate then tabs, which could be why it isn’t being offered in Chromebooks. While they take up more screen real-estate, but can be handy.
Do you find sidebar features essential for a browser?
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5 Responses to “The People Want a Chrome Bookmarks Side-bar!”
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Andy
28. Jul, 2011
Yes. YES! I have been waiting for a Chrome sidebar for more than a year. I still switch between Chrome and Firefox because I like the Firefox sidebar so much. If Chrome had one, I would be done with Firefox.
Steve
28. Jul, 2011
The bookmarks side-bar is absolutely indispensable and it could include rss also “live bookmark”. It is common to have dozens and dozens of bookmarks and to have to scroll all of them in slow motion is impractical. And I totally disagree that it takes space. Do you still use a 4:3 monitor? With widescreen, even in small monitors but with high resolution this is not a problem. Why chrome try to be different at the expense of ruining our browsing experience? Why don’t you implement what has been already tried and people like? Listen to the feedbacks and learn from it. Geez.
I have already ditched firefox because it is too slow but I think google chrome still have some very basic issues to resolve.
O dacar
02. Aug, 2011
YES! A Chrome Bookmarks Sidebar is critical to my abandoning Firefox. If space is a problem on smaller screens, then make it optional. But please, MAKE IT!
Chris
12. Sep, 2011
Chrome, what’s the deal with no bookmark sidebar? That’s the main reason I have not abandoned Firefox. I’m sure you have philosophical reasons for not including the sidebar but it sure makes chrome more inefficient and painful to use, especially if you have a lot of bookmarks. The screen space has never been an issue for me on a 4:3 monitor. It should be a non-issue altogether on a 16:9. As a previous poster asked, make the sidebar available as an option. If you do, Chrome will become the most popular browser.
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