Reviews & Comments of Bookmarks Commander chrome extension

Well, it is one of a kind, I guess. But the UI is horrible - no F-keys hotkeys, and with dragndrop there's no way to drag a bookmark INTO a folderl... But what is unforgivable is that it opens its website every time it's installed/updated.

I use Chrome and keep a lot of bookmarks. The native Chrome bookmark manager has significant limitations to me, in comparison with Firefox’s native, with which I was overall happy. (Compared with Firefox’s manager, Chrome’s seems to be better in just only one aspect, to me: when searching for a bookmark, you can find where it is.) So I was looking for an alternative to use with Chrome. I looked up many candidates, tried some, and finally found this one. Because I basically liked it, but missed important features in it, and since it still seems to be under development (last version released 3 months ago), I take the time to write my opinion about it. Note: My references for comparison are Chrome v95 and Firefox v62 (pretty old versions, I guess). Bookmarks Commander (BC) has the basic structure I was looking for: two panels, allowing for organization of loose bookmarks into a folder structure. The crucial feature I miss is: 1. An option to have folders in one of the panels shown as a pure folder structure (without any bookmarks). When BC will have this, I will move to it. Otherwise, navigation is too difficult and I will rather stick to the Chrome manager. But I would like to point out that BC is superior to Chrome’s in that it allows you to create a folder (“directory”) any place you want, by using a keyboard shortcut, without messing with the view in panels. (In Chrome’s, there is no shortcut I know of, the folder is created at the bottom of items inside the folder where you created it, and then you have to go back to the folder whose bookmarks you are moving/organizing. If you are creating lots of folders to organize your new bookmarks or whatever, this clumsy procedure is very time consuming.) Other missed features, in order of importance: 2. A more compact view of the folders and bookmarks would also be most welcome. (But it is already a bit better than Chrome.) 3. The mouse’s cursor’s movement when dragging and dropping from one pane to the other is, for some reason, significantly slower than with Chrome’s manager – it has a marked delay. (How does Chrome manages to make it fast/smooth?) 4. Still regarding the view, I think the lines between the items (bookmarks/folders and related info of each) are distracting, and clutter the view; having alternating shades of gray between items is of little help, at least for me. I mean, just look at Firefox’s manager: it has still more items visible, and still items are distinct enough. And it of course looks cleaner. 5. Keeping a memory of the column widths as adjusted last time would also be a bit helpful. (Currently it opens up everytime with default widths.) Summing up: if the developer(s) could produce a manager like Firefox’s native, and allowing you to find where a bookmark is, that would be excellent (at least for me). I am giving it 4 stars counting on improvements, hopefully soon (so I can start really using it).

Would have programmed it myself :) Thanks for this extension.

Simply outstanding! I just had a quick glimpse at this extension but I'm pretty sure it's the best bookmark manager

Simplified Drag n Drop in a familiar window explorer style. Utilitarian type tools tend to work well for me.

Great tool, nice look and feel. Delete without prompt would be a nice feature.

Finally someone did it! Thanks for implementing dual-pane navigation for bookmarks! I use Total Commander and Midnight Commander all the time, so naturally, for me this is the best possible bookmark sorting extension. Very clean and effective, easy to use as well.

This is a very nice tool! very convenient to edit bookmark. One thing that still hope to have, can we have a list of most recently added bookmark? Thanks!

Wow, this is just simply awesome! many thanks!

The idea to use classic file manager UI for bookmarks is a good one, implementation is useless. Not enough search options (actually none). Weird, irrational decisions for UI, like changing background color for no reason.

Genius mate, olde style for coders, cheers 6*

Just got it, looks good. Sorting, breadcrumb trail. Not familiar with Norton Commander, having some trouble figuring out the buttons on the command line. There are no doubt advantages to the two-pane view, but having to open the source folder and the target folder seems like a little more trouble. Then again, dragging to a closed folder can go awry with a mouse error.

I love it hella good!

Remembering and applying Norton Commander to manage Bookmarks is excellent. There are menu buttons I could not figure out, like tools. A F1 help window with clear explanations to menu buttons would be a great addition.

That is a great idea and years of usability experience behind this bookmark manager. The only missing features are 1) Sort by name, link, added, modified. Currently, sorting is done by name column only. 2) Filter for current folder. And even better if it could be an extended filter i.e. filter should enable to select filtered column (name, link, added, modified) .

I really like how clean it looks like this is easily the best looking bookmarks manager in chrome store and dual pane is very useful as expected. However it's frustrating that I have to learn keyboard shortcuts and always need to put my both hands when with other bookmark managers I can just drag and drop. I don't know I suspect chrome doesn't allow extensions to have usual windows shortcuts and mouse functions but some extensions somehow manage to include it so I can't say that it was an optimal experience.

Espectacular para organizar los favoritos. muy simple, fácil y funciona para lo que está hecho: organizar y facilitar.

Does what it promises, and finding duplicates is fast.