Online version of Chrome bookmarks similar to https://passwords.google.com
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loorong...@gmail.com,
Sep 30 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: tl;dr: Create an online version of Chrome bookmarks similar to https://passwords.google.com. # Existing solutions and respective disadvantages ## Google Bookmarks (https://www.google.com/bookmarks/) - A system completely separated from synced Chrome bookmarks. - Designed for old IE users, not actively maintained. ## Export Chrome bookmarks to HTML file and upload to GDrive/Dropbox etc - Need to manually upload HTML file, this is bad for users who add more bookmarks daily. - Too many steps to upload file just once. - Most online storage services do not provide HTML preview, user have to download HTML file. ## Third-party bookmarks sync service + Chrome extension - Users do not like to depend on third-party service, especially when Google server already has their bookmarks. ## Sign in to Chrome (family/friend/public computer) Based on observations in Chrome help forum, many users sign in to Chrome in device not owned by them to get their bookmarks **without knowing the consequences of sign in to Chrome**. This is one of the root causes of lost user data in many forum reports. ### Scenario 1: Sign in to Chrome on family/friend computer when the device has existing Chrome profile - Most users do not know they can (and should) create a new Chrome profile. - Bookmarks of family/friend's Chrome profile are overridden completely. - User gets bookmarks from family/friend, then naively deletes bookmarks. - Family/friend takes over the device, surprised that his/her bookmarks are gone: - Sign out of Chrome then delete user data: only family/friend's user data is lost. - Delete user data then sign out of Chrome: now even original user's data is lost too. ### Scenario 2: Sign in to Chrome on public computer - Not all public computers wipe out user data before shutdown. # Proposal Create an online version of Chrome bookmarks similar to https://passwords.google.com. Advantages - Chrome sync already collects Chrome bookmarks automatically and regularly, no manual action needed. - Only need to sign in to Google website, all potential user errors from sign in to Chrome can be avoided. - Actively maintained by Google (hopefully). It does not have to have all the functionalities found in chrome://bookmarks (add/edit/remove), even a simple viewer is enough. Many users need to view Chrome bookmarks much more than viewing Chrome passwords. What is the expected behavior? What went wrong? N/A Did this work before? No Chrome version: 61.0.3163.100 Channel: stable OS Version: 10.0 Flash Version:
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Comment 1 by ew...@chromium.org
, Oct 2 2017Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)