This is the 2nd trending issue for Chrome desktop as well (large bookmarks bar spacing).

Different from the original poster I would highly welcome if there was no additional spacing when only favicons are displayed. 
The spaces reduced my visible favicons from 50 to 38.

Or it would be great if a setting was implemented, that allowa the user to use either "wider touch targets" or not, to give the possibility to have the look and feel of Chrome before version 68. 

I mean not everybody has a touch display. Still I do love using my mouse.

I heavily rely on the tight spacing the newly added padding has put quite a wrench my workflow, would love to see a panel in the settings with options like "ultra compact", "compact", "comfortable", and "touch" or something. My unlabeled icons now take up double the amount of space, it's completely disruptive when I need to jump from site to site during the workday. 

I also have the spacing problem both with in the bookmarks bar and in the bookmark manager. I'm having this problem on a laptop, and I don't have a touch-screen either. 
Is there a way to reduce the spacing. I'd like it to be like it was in the old bookmark manager.

(I'd also like the old bookmark manager, but the option to set  chrome://flags/#enable-md-bookmarks  to Disabled is no longer there, so I'm on close to my limits right now. I'm almost at the point where I'd leave to firefox. I have thousands of bookmarks, and if I can no longer navigate easily through them, then that will be it with my time with chrome. Please help me.)

Hey all,

I believe this is being handled in  bug 848631 .

@omrilio Leaving this as a non-duplicate for now until you verify.

But does it? In comment #22:

"We've reduced spacing between items from 8dp to 4dp outside ChromeOS touchable devices"

To add, it feels like too much spacing on my Eve and Scarlet IMO.

How in the world could anyone think that this is a good idea on desktop? This update is atrocious.

+1

People seem to be complaining a lot in this thread too -- https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/6kWYqkrq_0Y/F01-4NgsCwAJ


This is the second thing that annoyed me after Chrome turning into Yellow, when upgraded to 68...

The bookmark spacing has been reduced in Chrome 68.0.3440.84 which is rolling out now. You can go to chrome://settings/help to force update.

Just upgraded to Version 69.0.3497.81 (Official Build) (32-bit). It's even worse now. I lost four more favorites.

Also for me: this time (69.0.3497.81) in the bookmark bar there are 4 less icons than v68.

This is really annoying

Yes, I also suffer from reduced bookmark icons using desktop Chrome. :(
I delete the names in many cases, but I am defeated by this new padding around the icons?
Please make this a variable/flag we can set in preferences.

Ok, for whatever reason, I had normal width bookmarks the last 2 days?
Now they are back to "empty space to the right of the image"!!
Version 73.0.3664.3 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)
Will this ever get a custom setting?