As alerted by Bookmark Manager Extension, it has stopped working in Chrome today on August 15, 2018, I can confirm that. update: But here is an interesting change we noticed later. Google has updated the extension in Web Store, now if you install or update the Bookmark Manager extension, the extension itself will get removed and restores the Chrome default bookmark manager. And the extension does nothing now if you install it for first time.
Google has released Bookmark Manager extension for Chrome browser back in 2014 and integrated it into the browser in 2015, after criticism from users, Chromium team has enabled old bookmark system and kept the extension available on the Chrome Web Store.
READ: Google bows to users Criticism, Re-enables old bookmark Manager in Chrome
Bookmark Manager Chrome extension restores built-in bookmark Manager
Recently the extension installed on Chrome browser started alerting it will be deprecated soon. Here is the message: ‘The bookmark Manager extension will be discontinued on 8/15/2018″.
Google’s bookmark manager extension, when compared with the built-in bookmark manager allows to add images and notes to bookmarks and organize bookmarks into folders. Users have fallen in love with these features, now they can’t live without it. But Google has no plans to maintain it and provide support, that’s why they’ve discontinued the plugin.
The search engine giant can remove the bookmark manager extension from the Chrome Web Store anytime.
Now what?
Exporting Bookmarks Saved with Bookmark Manager extension in Chrome
If you have the extension installed, it will not work and the bookmarks you saved won’t be lost. If you want to backup them.
1. Click on Chrome menu > More tools > Extensions
2. Disable the Bookmark Manager extension and re-enable it. This not only will activate the extension, but also its settings.
3. Visit Chrome://bookmarks in the address bar.
4. Click on the cog wheel and select Export Bookmarks.
Now uninstall the extension, built-in bookmark manager in Chrome will be re-enabled, import the bookmarks exported to HTML file, done.
What’s your take on this? Do you prefer to use Chrome’s built-in bookmark Manager or the extension based which Google has offered till now? Let us know your opinions in the comments below.
Yesterday, August 14, 2018, my Bookmark changed for the way worse. I did not have the extension installed, as written about in this article. Google has replaced the excellent sub-folder-friendly bookmark manager with a similar piece of do-do that appeared on my screen yesterday at least two times in the past, and happily I was able to configure the old bookmarks back again.
The Techdows article, “Chrome 42: How to get old Bookmarking Interface and Manager back?” has a link that I used to get the old bookmarks back again when this occurred to me in 2015. It also happened again at the end of last year, I believe. These instructions do not work anymore, so I will not bother to post the link (you can see how it was done by searching for that Techdows article).
I just tried using the new bookmark manager. It’s so crappy, I cannot even create a sub-folder. Are there any way to fix this, to revert back the old bookmark manager? I hope so because the new bookmark manager is not usable if I cannot make sub-folders.
Thank you.