Add A Bookmark Button To Google Chrome’s Toolbar

I've got Chrome as my default browser and would like the Internet link at the top of my Start menu to start up with the bookmark menu enabled. Any idea how to do this? I've changed the shortcut in the Programs section of the start menu, but the one on the top is still vanilla.

not sure I understand the point for this, the little star icon on the far left of the URL bar does this already....plus you can always just drag and drop.

grimdeath9740

Works fine in Start|Programs|Google Chrome but,
command-line switches do not work in Rocketdock (at least for me) .... any ideas?

ElementalMember

Amazing! Thanks for the post.
And the best part? When you open a new tab, the bookmark bar appears as a part of the new screen and disappears as you load a page.

who.else

I use many of these command line switches in Chrome. Really makes Chrome usable for me. I can't seem to get them to work in Portable Chrome though. Any ideas how to get them to work in Portable Chrome? I especially want the extensions switch and the Omnibox drop down count switches to work.

Anomaly1

Love it! Wish it were standard!

anniekate76

This is a neat tip but the 'other bookmarks' button works well enough for me.

Google needs to stop trying to tell us what we want/need and just provide what we're asking for. Until that day, I'm sticking with Firefox.

Hoppes

@Carrespondent: NO! I finally gave up and uninstalled Chrome because they still won't smoothly integrate with Google Bookmarks. They'll import them and they're all out of order (not alphabetical). Forget it, I'm back to using Firefox.

Hoppes

Might this work with the Linux development version? The same syntax is used (for example, --enable-plugins). Will test :)

@MagicMT: Doh! HTB beat me too it! But yeah I used to use TinyMenu but I didn't like having to go through 2 levels of menus to reach my bookmarks.

@dotyoureyes:
They'll probably add a new command-line switch to make the other switches available there.

Amarus

mine

Good Lord, another command-line switch?

Listen, I'm a huge Chrome fan, but this is absurd.

Google: You've got an options dialog with an "Under the Hood" section. Is it so hard to put these things in there?

dotyoureyes

Does Chrome fully integrate with Google Bookmarks yet? I want to like Chrome, but if it doesn't smoothly integrate with all Google services -- at least as well as Firefox with extensions -- I don't see much of a point in it for me. I suspect I'm not alone in this.

@Gerry Shappell: Correction, you actually can use Readitlaterlist in other browswers with bookmarklets, just would like the same functionality that i have in Firefox in Chrome.

Gerry Shappell

@HTB:
thanks! it does work well with tinymenu =)

@MagicMT: I've been doing something like this in FF. See a screenshot of it here:
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Basically, just right click the toolbar and click customize. Then drag all the navigation stuff off the navigation bar and onto the file bar. Then close the customization window, right click the navigation bar, and uncheck the navigation bar.

@[src.chromium.org]

@MagicMT: You can easily do this in FF by right-clicking your toolbar and selecting "Customize." Look for the Bookmarks icon and drag it to your toolbar. This works nicely if you use TinyMenu or PersonalMenu to eliminate the menu bar.

I did have the " --enable-user-scripts" enabled, but, along with Flash 10 giving me all sorts of grief lately I turned it off.

Anyone else who uses Chrome been getting loads of crashed tabs that require the "End process" button for "Plug-in: Shockwave Flash" to be clicked multiple times a day?

Also, don't forget the " --enable-sync" switch to have Chrome synchronize bookmarks between machines. I use this at home between my main machine and my media centre and the wife loves it - anything she adds upstairs can subsequently be seen downstairs. :)

I am right now attempting to get Chrome to work on my desktop. If it would even work, I might think about tweaking it...

Now if there was just some way to setup my "Readitlater" bookmarks, I would be set...

Gerry Shappell

is there a way to do this on FF?

Does anyone have a comprehensive list of Chrome command line switches?

One day this is going to be a great browser. Every time LF posts an article on one of Chrome's new features, I get excited but then remember that Chrome doesn't have extensions (or at least not a very robust extension system).