Anyone else using this? I think it’s a fantastic extension for an already good browser.
Allows for adding as many bookmark thumbnail tabs to your homepage as you want (instead of the usual 6 -8). Also link to apps.
You can also group bunches of tabs and have them all under one visual link on the mainpage. These are like bookmark folders but way more visible and accessible as the grouping label is always visible.
So for example, I am now preparing for travel in China so I have a new grouping label called China (the label is also colored red to make it stand out). Click on that and it takes me to a nice page with thumbnail bookmarks. What’s great too is that if I find a new website I like, I can just right click and add a tab to the group instantly.
Lots of other little features. In essence if you love ordering your bookmarks visually and want them to be far more visible that the old bookmark function allowed then get this.
Nice find, thanks. I was using the original speed dial for a homepage but this seems much more useful…now I can make groups on the top of the speed dial page and ditch the bookmarks bar in chrome…and the sidebar allows you to access anything else in bookmarks. Only thing I don’t like is that I put all my bookmarks/folders in the bookmarks bar so I can delete/move them manually through the menu…with the sidebar here you can’t do that and have to go to bookmarks manager…not a big deal though.
I took a quick look at it but it seems to actually require more steps to get to a bookmark than just using the bookmarks bar. As it stands at the moment, I just click the icon in the bookmark bar and it opens in a new tab. Nice and easy. Speed Dial II seems that I’d first have to open a tab and then click to open the bookmark. Not a lot of time obviously, but I don’t get the point.
Yes, I suppose it is an extra step in some cases. Before you could have about 8 bookmark tabs at the top of the page. I suppose if you only needed to have highly visible a limited number of tabs then no need to change. But for different projects this works very well as your bookmarks are all highly visible and grouped together.
I just find this very visually appealing and orderly. I find having bookmarks as text-only in folders means I forget a lot of them are there and it’s hard to find things that aren’t at the top.
We must have completely different Chrome setups - I have 22 bookmark tabs at the top of the page and with a bit of editing and rearrangement, could fit another 8-10 if need be.
Really? I only had about 8. Still I wouldn’t want all that clutter at the top of the page. Good incentive for clicking on another site when you are working.
Anyway, I really like this new system. I always loved the thumbnail links and to have all my bookmarks like this, with a nice light blue wallpaper background, and colored tabs for groups, is really perfect.
Yeah that’s a good point that you have to open a new tab to get to the bookmarks page…what I do is leave the original one open on the far left and just go back to that when I need to open a new site, then middle click to open everything I went as a background tab.
If you have a larger number of sites you like to check out then this is definitely better, as beyond the bookmarks tab you have to start clicking and looking to find other folders etc anyway. I find the groups buttons this offers more appealing in terms of ease of use…I noticed you can open the whole group at the same time as well by right clicking…same as chrome bookmarks folders but good that they have it anyway.
I tend to go online maybe 3 times a day and open everything I want to read through at the same time, so the step of going to the speed dial page to get everything is not a big deal…overall the organization and aesthetics will likely save me time.
btw Mucha, maybe you only had 8 up there because you didn’t edit the names? Make them shorter and you can fit a lot…anyway I agree this is still better.
This is really cool, now I have 20 often visited sites on the home page, visually clear, plus two project tabs set up-thanks for pointing it out MM. By the way, you can also continue to show the bookmark tab at the top…control+shift+b
