Google Chrome Adds Bookmark Manager

The dev channel version of Google Chrome for Mac has been updated with a long-awaited new feature: a bookmark manager.

Google refers to it as “rudimentary” and they’re right, it’s nothing terribly special. But it’s a start, and shows that Chrome is making excellent progress on the OS X platform.

And even more exciting, as far as I’m concerned, is evidence that Chrome’s smart address bar is capable of replicating, in a manner of speaking, the feature I love so much in Camino; the ability to assign custom text shortcuts to any stored bookmark. As I explained in this screencast a while ago, this Camino feature makes it really easy and really fast to trigger bookmarklets and other events by using address bar as a kind of command entry box.

Chrome’s address bar will display matches in your bookmark names as you type them. So if you have an “Add to Delicious” bookmarkmarklet (as I have), just typing that name in Chrome’s address bar will bring it up in the list of suggestions.

It’s not as swift as Camino’s version, which lets you pick a text shortcut for a bookmark as well as a title, and acts the instant you type the shortcut; but it’s pretty close.

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Note: the dev channel for Chrome is called that for a reason. Be warned that dev channel software isn’t finished and might self-destruct at any moment.

(Via TechCrunch.)

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http://gridironmeanderings.blogspot.com Colin
Looks like the manager cannot access the parent “Other Bookmarks” folder, which is rather annoying. But it is a start.
Sonny Mooks
When will Chrome for Mac be able to import Safari bookmarks ?
http://claycarson.net Clay
Sonny, it already does.
Click Chrome in the menu bar and then “Import Bookmarks and Settings”
Ryan Lee Humphreys
One other thing that you forgot to mention (or perhaps wasn’t aware of), is that in this release they also implemented a multi-touch gesture. When holding the CMD key and doing a three finger swipe either left or right, it’ll open a new tab. Useful? No. It’s a lot easier to just tap CMD-T. Cool? I guess so.