My config: Brave 1.77.101 with Chrome 135.0.7049.115, Windows 10 Home x64 22H2
Why no sorting option on bookmarks in a bookmarks folder?
- I go into Bookmark Manager, and right-click on a folder. There is no sort option. I have to manually drag each bookmark, one at a time, to do a sort. Dragging lets me organize in a non-sorted order, like for priority, but it is a pain to use dragging to manually sort the list.
- I go into Sidebar → Bookmarks. There is a sort option, but as a separate toolbar icon requiring me to first enter a bookmark folder. No sort option in right-click context menu of a bookmark folder. Also, sorting in the Sidebar is not reflected in the Bookmarks Manager nor in the bookmarks toolbar. Sorting is independent in the Sidebar.
- In the bookmarks toolbar, no sort option when right-click on a folder.
@VanguardLH while I agree that these should parity one another, it will likely have to wait for a change upstream, as changing this functionality on our end would require constant maintenance every time we update Chromium.
Note that it is likely that this will be fixed in Chromium at some point. I’m seeing several open issues for the Chromium engine that are similar to this.
I haven’t used Chrome for around 2 years, or more, which was a short-lived trial, so I can’t remember much about Chrome. Are the following features of Chromium that Brave inherits, so Brave is limited to what Chromium has?
- Sidebar (*)
- Bookmarks Manager
- Bookmarks toolbar
(*) I thought Sidebar was a Brave-only feature, and it does have sorting, but its sorting is not reflected into other views of the bookmarks.
In Edge, also a Chromium variant, the Bookmarks Manager whether called up using the toolbar icon, menu → Favorites, Ctrl+Shift+O, or by going to edge://favorites, has “Sort by name” when right-clicking on a bookmark folder (and duplicated as an in-frame toolbar button for edge://favorites). If Microsoft could do it, I figured Brave could do it, too, and maybe better. If Microsoft is just cloning what Chromium has, tis odd that Brave differs.
Create, find and edit bookmarks in Chrome
That mentions sorting of bookmarks in Chrome. However, “Sort by name” is not a context menu entry when right-clicking on a bookmark folder, but is instead a property of a bookmark folder accessed via in-frame toolbar button very much how sorting works in Brave’s Sidebar, except with Sidebar the user has to move into the bookmark folder to sort rather than sort at the bookmark folder’s level in the tree.
We are not limited to only what Chromium has, but we do have to weigh the work that it takes to maintain changes we make to the engine against the desire/priority of the feature. Microsoft is a massive company with a ton of resources, which likely allows them to make more drastic changes on their end, as they have resources and man-power to ensure that it can be maintained every Chromium bump.
In brave://settings/bookmarks, you can sort by name using the overflow button on the top-right of the screen:
I am unclear as to exactly what you’re trying to say here. In the bookmarks sidebar, if you are viewing All bookmarks – which includes bookmarks and folders – you can use the sort button to sort this view. If you want to sort a folder, simply click on the folder, then use the sort option. This makes sense, as the sort is applied to the folder level you’re currently viewing. There is no context menu sort at this time.
In Sidebar, sorting is not actual sorting. It is a view filter, and why “sorting” in Sidebar is not reflected in the bookmarks toolbar or in Bookmarks Manager (Ctrl+Shift+O). I did not realize “sorting” in Sidebar was just a view filter, so I was going into a bookmark folder to select “sorting” order not realizing it was a view applied everywhere.
In Bookmarks Manager (Ctrl+Shift+O), the right-click context menu for a folder is missing the “Sort by name” option. The 3-dot menu for each folder is missing a sort option. Way over to the top right sitting lonely and nearly invisible, I missed another 3-dot menu which does have a “Sort by name” option. That is a per-folder sort. Other folders are not sorted, so you have to go to each folder to sort it. The more [sub]folders, the more you have to perform individual sorts. That’s okay if you want some folders sorted while others retain a custom order. However, walking through folders to sort them all is a pain, so there needs to be a global sort where it is recursive into all subfolders from the folder you select.
Sorting in the Bookmarks Manager is reflected into the bookmarks toolbar. There is no sorting for folders in the bookmarks toolbar (to reflect back into the Bookmarks Manager). Sorting in Sidebar is just a view filter, and its sorted view there is not reflected elsewhere.
I didn’t realize Sidebar’s sorting was just a local view inside of Sidebar, and I missed the separate 3-dot menu icon at the top right corner of Bookmarks Manager.
