Hi, I really like Chrome, but it is obvious that effort has been put into compatibility with existing sites, the rendering and the multi-process secure architechture. The omnibox and opening page are great. Bookmarks and form filling have been neglected.
This is what I know about where we are at the moment.... Without the 'always show bookmark bar' setting, the only way to load from a bookmark is via typing in the Omnibox or a new tab. There is no window that allows proper management of bookmarks. You can only select a bookmark in the Other bookmarks menu and right-click and press edit to edit that one bookmark. Bookmarks can be moved around the hierarchy by dragging and dropping. What I propose is a new Navigation menu that is accessed next to the back and forward arrows. This allows easy access to all bookmarks. Additionally it will goto the smart homepage, has a submenu to access all the hidden chrome stats pages and at the moment I have another submenu for managing the 'Chrome Memory' which I have identified as containing History, Downloads (management pages already exist for these two) Bookmarks, Passwords, Search places and Cookies. I have this coded but can't find a way to upload a jpg. The backend storage for history has been improved already, but the others have been ignored. I would propose looking into a way to merge all these. I have lots of ideas for managing bookmarks and integrating this with the Password system. I use RoboForm for passwords and form filling in IE and miss it in Chrome so I am happy to write the equivalent code to add something better to chrome. I would like to add many properties to each bookmark, while keeping the interface very clean and simple: * Organise bookmarks with folders and labels. * Pin bookmark to smart homepage. * Exclude bookmark from smart homepage. * Set bookmark for automatic incognito. * Mark bookmark to show on bookmark bar. * Mark bookmark to show on Navigation menu. * Store passwords and other form entries with bookmark for auto filling. Need password to use passcards and another to view/edit them. * Store favicon and thumbnail for all bookmarked sites. (anyone know why favicons are only stored in history?) * Live access to bookmark stores of other browsers and web services. * Tie bookmarks to SSL entity for better user security. * Report visit history and cookies per bookmark. * Automatically add Search features from favourite sites. * Set site to prefetch all links on page when loading for fast or offline access (Don't clog the pipes! hehe) * Implement more ways to access bookmarks using the smart home page as a start for the idea. I am asking what else is being done so I don't spend weeks writing it to find someone has uploaded something similar!! Chris PS. Pls let me know how to send you all my nav menu jpg. I also got to the bottom of a problem when adding icons to menu items changed the whole menu appearance in Vista! There are two separate classes for 'owner drawing' menus. The page and settings menu use the wrong one! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
