Hi Chris, Scott Violet is probably going to begin doing work on a new Bookmark Manager in the next few weeks. We'll have mocks soon. You should look at this work and see if it meets your needs.
-Ben On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Chris G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
