I see now the wording was "Open All Bookmarks". Either way, please restore this functionality.

I agree, I used this feature constantly and I have no access to the bookmarks bar because I have a custom new tab page. It makes no sense to have removed this feature.

Sorry, also copied the wrong URL. Screenshot from this post:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/MkvN2NazzOM;context-place=forum/chrome

Regarding  issue 708813 , this was an intentional change.

Adding the feature request label. 

Untriaging this issue based on the Comment#5, so that the issue gets addressed.

One temporary work around is to install https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/minimal-bookmarks-tree/mohenkbngkbmdlkiemonbgdfgdjacaeb which has "Open all" available on a right click.

Definitely not ideal, and I'd like the Open All Bookmarks option back, but this'll do until then IMO.  

Please restore this functionality, its removal has a purely negative impact on user experience.

Thanks for the feedback everyone. We removed these commands because they had very very low usage and were making menus longer for everyone. This decision follows from Chrome's core principle of simplicity. 

We realize this is disruptive to those of you who were using this menu item regularly. You can still access open-all a few different ways:
1) Put folders you frequently open in the bookmarks bar. Even if Chrome is set to hide the bookmarks bar, it will be shown when you open a new tab. 
2) Open the bookmarks manager in a tab and ctrl-click -> open all on any folder
3) install an extension from the Chrome Web Store that makes open all available in a way that works for you

This doesn't make any sense.
"simplicity" is making things more complicated. You now have to offer alternative solutions to fix something that was perfectly working, how is this simple?

Are you going to release a plugin that restores this function? It should be easier for the people that ripped it out in the first place, since they have the source for the original functionality.

rpop@chromium.org please release a plug-in which restores this functionality

Firefox still has an "open all in tabs" available in the bookmarks menu.  Switching is the way to go.

Hopefully its apparent at this point that the "low usage" people you're talking about are probably power users (or whatever) who depend on this as part of their workflow. For example, I rely on this to open a set of dev & admin panels when stepping through code deployments.
The "longer menus" justification also doesn't make sense since bookmark menu length is entirely dependent on the user with or without this change.

These justifications were not present at all in the original ticket to remove this feature. 

As for the workarounds suggested: I don't use the default chrome new tab page, so I don't see my bookmarks bar in a new window. In fact, I don't think suggesting we open a new tab in order to open a new window (as outlined in 1 & 2) in the name of "simplicity" is a valid suggestion. You're hiding a functionality shortcut that people found useful behind extra steps.

If you're going to suggest installing an extension to restore the "Open X in New Window" functionality to the browser menus, please release an extension that does this instead of telling us to find 3rd party developers to correct this regression. Or at the very least, allow us to set a flag to re-enable it.

Yeah, a flag would also be great!

I'm just going to +1 the earlier comments, removing this feature has really screwed me and made things worse, not better or simpler.  

This smells like the action of office politics and a dev who just doesn't want to deal with it.  Restoring it through a setting or plugin at minimum would be appropriate.  

bring it back

please bring it back, or at least make it a configurable option. i used that EVERY DAY.

rpop@chromium.org, it has been two weeks since we've responded to your dismissal of this issue and there hasn't been anything in the way of a proposed fix or compromise. 

- The menu length justification is irrelevant when the menus are user customizable.
- Appealing to abstract "principles of simplicity" is disingenuous, when it is clear this has impacted people's workflows.
- The suggested workarounds all introduce extra steps to access functionality which is already present, but you have decided to hide.
- Don't remove features from the browser and then suggest we find 3rd party developers to install extensions to replace it. Make it available as a flag or extension yourself, or please restore the feature.

Seconding everything Comment 15 said. I don't use the default tab page either, because long long ago when Chrome removed the option to have new tabs open as a blank page, I installed a 3rd party plugin to give me this option again. I also had to install a plugin to make new tabs appear at the end of the row when this feature was changed too. I can't wait to find out what other useful elements will be removed in the future, making the browser more difficult to use in the name of "simplicity."

I agree with the above comments.  To some of us this is a part of our workflow.  Simply removing a feature with no warning while providing undesirable workarounds and a thin excuse is really just poor form.  

WHY IT MATTERS:
Because this outstanding feature was so useful, users did not simply alter their habits (which must be unlearned), they deliberately arrayed and nested their bookmarks for expressly this purpose.

Very frustrated this feature is gone.  Should have at least been a setting you can turn on.  I don't use the bookmark bar to save space and minimize the UI. The purpose of bookmark folders/sets has been extremely been crippled because of the removal of this feature.

 Issue 777200  has been merged into this issue.

Wow, I am saddened this was removed.
Even making it an "ALT" feature or something would be nice.
I used this ALL the time.  Especially when rebooting and needing to reopen the windows I had open before rebooting (and right clicking reopen closed window is inconsistent).

Ugh this is annoying. I understand prioritizing a shorter menu over providing this option by default. How about a setting to turn it on? I used it especially to restore after shutting down chrome - could re-open all my bookmarks. Could open all my research on a specific topic - for example vacation or recipes, or a work related topic. I keep separate windows and could open all the bookmarks in one window related to a topic and browse.

Loved this feature! Please bring it back!

Please bring back!  Why can't you satisfy both requirements - by making this configurable in the Preferences file?  You could default to 'disabled' so as to satisfy your desire to remove it for most users;  but allow those who *do* use this feature to enable it in their Preferences?  Isn't that Win = Win?

I use this all the time, who's BRILLIANT idea was it to remove it??? 

Shorter menus? You don't NEED a shorter menu for a bookmarked folder!

Put it back!

Agree that this should be brought back or at least made a preference setting.    Using a third-party plugin isn't always a valid workaround due to privacy/security concerns.