Would be very helpful to have a button that allows us to quickly show/hide the “Other Bookmarks” bar on Brave browser for Desktops. Even better: the bar could show in multiple lines so that we can add even more bookmarks to it. Maybe an “autohide/show” function could work, but it looks like an easily accessible button to trigger it would do an even better job. We would benefit from a more free/clean space (quickly hiding the bar) and a better functionality/user experience (with multiple lines).
I like this idea. One thing about the current design that irks me from a UI perspective is that the Bookmarks Bar is only accessible (easily) with a keyboard but is only usable with a mouse. A button fixes some of that, but a combo-button could fix it all.
Chrome has an experimental New Tab button with an arrow to open the Tab Search popup (otherwise accessed with Ctrl+Shift+A).
If the existing bookmarks button (on the left of the address bar) had an arrow like this, then the Bookmarks menu could be moved there from the hamburger menu. The Bookmarks Bar toggle (Crtl+Shift+B) could be reassigned to open that menu, which is already keyboard-accessible and includes the contents of the Bookmarks Bar.
The Bookmarks Bar UI object would become unnecessary, but it currently houses a button for opening the apps page, and pinned Tab Groups live there too. So those things would need to be added to the combo-button menu. They are not actual bookmarks, but the current bookmarks menu includes the Reading List, which is in the same ball park as the Tab Groups, so a menu with both types of bookmark-ish things should feel coherent to users.
This solution would also assuage the people who lament the loss of Brave’s menu bar in Windows, because the bookmarks menu is the main thing they used it for.