Ping, any plan to reinstate cut/copy/paste commands in context menu?

@calamity It looks like the old bookmarks manager will be removed in the near future:
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/1016223

Would we be able to prioritize this to maintain feature parity? Thanks!

Marking this as WontFix.

From the UX designer:

"I'm not convinced this feature is of high-value. There's not a lot of signals in the bug and if we were to build the browser over again and ask ourselves if this feature is necessary...I'd hesitate to say 'yes'. Without a keyboard accessory, there's still drag-and-drop."

"drag and drop" can only emulate "cut" and "paste" actions, but not "copy". "Copy" action currently can only be done with keyboard shortcut.

For touch screen users, it is even worse. No keyboard means impossible to copy bookmark at all.

"drag and drop" is pretty modern way of managing items, popular tools such as Windows File Explorer, Gmail (you can drag email to different categories), Google Drive etc. all have it, so this way of interacting with UI is proven to be useful.

However, they also provide ways to manage items by using "right-click". I believe most users, old and young, will expect a software to support "right-click" actions.

I maintain TONS of bookmarks.

Some of the items are logically relevant to more than a single topic [folder].

The ability to store a bookmark in more than a single folder was very important to me when assembling citations [URLs] on a given topic.

Google Chrome Stable 68.0.3440.75 removed the flag to disable Material Design in the Bookmark Manager - thus forcing Material Design of the Bookmark Manager.

The initial reason I preferred the prior Bookmark Manager is because I was able to copy bookmarks, and paste them in a different folder - which I am unable to do in the Material Design interface.

I will speculate that the reason you haven't received a great deal of comment on this would be that many users disabled Material Design Bookmarks.

Further, I would guess that you might reasonably expect more comment now that the flag to disable Material Design Bookmarks has been abandoned.

Do you people ever search the Google Chrome Help Forums?

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/7uyLxeEI5aw

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/LPgTLvrr54A

I too would very much appreciate the return of the right-click 'Copy Bookmark' item on the context menu - the 'Copy URL' item is nice when simply assembling a list of citations - but not as helpful for actually managing one's bookmarks.

It's pretty sad that now we have to BEG to get the NORMAL bookmark manager back, when it was a perfectly working piece of code.  Moreover why take away the OPTION for those who wish to re-enable it by this flag? 

chrome://flags/#enable-md-bookmarks

Shaking my head...

Please bring back the old bookmark manager as an option for those of us who prefer it. I hate the new one and can no longer revert back to the old one. Among many other things, I want to see bookmark URLs again and also be able to right-click on a bookmark and have the menu include "Add new folder". The new design does not work for me.

The new material bookmark manager is totally crippled for desktop users.
We're used to right clicking, copy, paste, new folder, etc.
This new one is like a bad joke... actually quite sad!

I want to add my voice to the clamor to keep the old bookmarks as an option. There was no reason to disable the flag. As others have noted, it's not just the look but the functionality of material design that are crippling our ability to manage bookmarks. Many of us keep bookmarks for work and need to be able to organize large numbers of bookmarks easily. I know you're not going to change from material design, but please re-enable the flag to change back to the old bookmarks.