[Skipping the whole heated argument thing] Just to say that I really like this feature and I think that it addresses (in one way among many) a very real deficiency. People need access to their bookmarks and the bookmarks bar is one way but takes so much real-estate for something that could take a few pixels and not affect vertical space usable by web-content.
Going to the new tab page is another possibility to get to the bookmarks bar without having it one permanently but does not work for bookmarklets because they no longer execute in the context of a specific web-page. In order not to use any visual space, it would be awesome if we could simply have the context menu (right mouse click) of the bookmark icon (star) show a hierarchical menu for all bookmarks. - Itai On Dec 15, 7:50 pm, "Darren Horrocks" <[email protected]> wrote: > i have recently created a patch and submitted it to > codereviewhttp://codereview.chromium.org/14441/show > > the patch adds a menu button to the right of the address bar and the menu > gives a menu of all the bookmarks within the bookmark manager and allows for > a user to navigate to their bookmarks without the need for the bookmark bar > or opening a new tab and then going to the bookmark button. > > the patch was designed for generally speeding up access to the users > bookmarks, as this is one of the most complained about missing features that > i have heard while in offices and around the web and around irc. > IE7 has the star button, IE6 had the old style dropdown menu, safari also > has the old style dropdown menu as with IE6. firefox and opera also have > similar features directly on the main interface without the need to waste > extra screen real estate on another toolbar we dont need. > > as this is at most a 28 pixel reduction in the width of the address bar, > this is a far better use of the screen than 24 pixels of height in the form > of an additional toolbar removing from the actual browser visability. > > and as most people will only use the bookmark bar to access the "other > bookmarks" button, this truly is wasted space. > > Regards, > Darren > > no-bar.png > 17KViewDownload > > with-bar.png > 20KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
