Views, Statistics & Navigation
Flat, Tree, Navigation and Privacy views, the Statistics tab, and locating the current page in your tree.
The four views
| View | Best for |
|---|---|
| Flat view | A single searchable list of every bookmark, folders flattened out of the way. |
| Tree view | Your folder structure exactly as Chrome stores it, expandable/collapsible. |
| Navigation view | Breadcrumb-style drill-down — open one folder at a time, like a file browser, instead of an ever-expanding tree. |
| Privacy view | Masks bookmark titles/URLs on screen, for browsing your bookmarks somewhere public. |
A separate detail-level toggle switches between Detailed (favicon, title, URL, tags all visible) and Compact (title only) rows, independent of which of the four views you're in.
The toolbar's "More" menu
Beyond the views themselves, the toolbar's overflow menu is where you reach the rest of Bookmark Manager's tools — each covered in its own page of this manual:
- Tag Manager and Auto-Tag — see Tags & Auto-Tag Rules.
- Recycle Bin — see Recycle Bin & Bookmark Locking.
- Quick Search — see Tags & Auto-Tag Rules. Smart Suggestions — see Smart Recommendations & Import/Export.
- Import/Export — also in Smart Recommendations & Import/Export.
- Check Bookmarks (dead-link detection) and duplicate detection — see Bookmark Health Check & Duplicate Detection.
Locating the current page
If the page you're currently looking at is bookmarked somewhere in a large folder tree, one click jumps to it and highlights it in place — faster than expanding folders by hand to find where you filed it.
The Statistics tab
A dashboard over your entire bookmark collection: total bookmarks, unique domains, total tags in use, a count of "Frequent" bookmarks versus ones you've "Never Visited," a tag cloud, and a visit-distribution donut chart. The chart's color theme and the visit-count thresholds that define each band are both configurable.
Why favicons load reliably
Bookmark and tab icons go through a fallback chain rather than relying on a single source: Chrome's own favicon lookup first, then a Google favicon service, then a Google static-content icon service, so icons still show up correctly even on single-page-app sites where Chrome's native favicon detection often comes up empty. This runs automatically — there's nothing to configure.