Perhaps now, with the rise of mobile devices and the appearance of a thousand and one apps for notes, memos, reminders and more, old bookmarks they receded into the background when they did not simply disappear from the interests and tools of many users. And yet there are also many who continue to use them for their utility and convenience. Which of course doesn’t mean they don’t need a good update.

This was done in a certain way first by browsers like Opera or Vivaldi with their visual bookmarks or later and with a greater desire for innovation by Opera itself with its bulletin boards or Microsoft Edge with its collections. But bookmarks, at least the concept, can do a lot more on their own, as developers seem willing to demonstrate…surprise, Chrome. Surprised because it was difficult for Google’s browser to respond to the competition, most of them were fine.

However, since a few years to this part, the once milimalistic web browser par excellence has started to add features that give added value to the remaining alternatives, for example with groups of bookmarks, with a sidebar… and with tags, an area in which they have been engaged for a long time with the aim of implementing ambitious changes on a practical level, but it takes a long time to achieve them.

A little look at Chrome’s “Power Bookmarks”.

To the fact that this Power Bookmarks is a term coined by the Chrome Unboxed website to correspond to a development codename. It doesn’t have to end by going to the browser itself. In any case, here are a few changes designed to give Chrome’s bookmarks, and hopefully other browsers, that twist.

Tab groups for bookmarks

We’ve talked about bookmark groups, and a new feature that’s been in the oven for quite some time, but hasn’t been fully deployed in the stable version of the browser, is the option save card groups… as bookmarksyes, which makes it easy to reopen with a single click.

If you want to try it out, you can enable it yourself via Chrome’s advanced options (“chrome://flags/#tab-groups-save”). Once activated, you will see a new option appear in the context menu of tab groups to save them to the bookmarks bar.

Of course, keep in mind that the feature is not ready and you will lose the bookmark when you close the browser, among other errors. However, it is now closer to becoming a reality.

Shopping and bookmarks

Another really interesting feature about Chrome’s “Power Bookmarks” is the functionality related to purchases, as it integrates its own space into the sidebar, and in addition, turns them into kind of smart bookmarks with a price alert, that is, to be notified when the price of a product you added has dropped. Nothing is said about notifications, but… A picture is worth a thousand words:

Prices in Chrome tabs, yes | Picture: Twitter

However, this shopping feature seems to be greener than the previous one, so it will take longer to reach the average Chrome user. It is also unknown if the “Power Bookmarks” will be complete and released as such, or if they will appear in batches, which is very likely. Be that as it may… Microsoft Edge will have competition in this regard.

There are only a few new features coming to Chrome Bookmarks in the near future, but there are more, some more subtle, through integration with other aspects of the browser and even Google services, such as collections provided by your browser. . Interesting to say the least.