Bug#639748: chromium: please add a side pane for bookmarks (like the one in Galeon)

[Jonathan Nieder]

tags 639748 + upstream
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Hi Francesco!

Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:

> While trying out Chromium, I noticed that the way to access bookmarks
> is terribly slow and uncomfortable: the bookmarks bar shown in the
> "new tab page" (or always shown, if you check "Always show the bookmarks
> bar" in the preferences) only makes the first few bookmark folders visible;
[...]
> All this is really slow and unpractical, especially if you have a good
> number of bookmarks.

If you hit Ctrl+Shift+O, then you get access to a "bookmark manager"
with search and everything.  But practically speaking, what I would
encourage is to put the permanent bookmarks that need to be nicely
organized on a webpage (either local or public) and use the "Bookmark
this page" feature just as a way to save a few interesting pages that
you were reading recently or that you frequently need to open in a new
tab.

In other words, these aren't necessarily the kind of bookmark you are
used to. :)

[...]
> What I would really love seeing implemented in Chromium is a side pane

Chromium doesn't currently have any side panes.  Even the developer
tools open in a separate window, so I guess that would be more
consistent with what you are looking for.

Please feel free to report this at http://crbug.com/ and let us know
the bug number if you want to pursue it.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan