Minimal Bookmarks Tree

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Extension status: Featured

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Display a tree of bookmarks under a toolbar button, and search your bookmarks in the omnibox using the keyword 'bm'.

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This extension adds a button to Chrome in the top right corner (next to the "three-dot" settings button). When you click the button you get a tree of your bookmarks with folders that you can open and close by clicking them. A simple -non obtrusive- sliding animation is applied to the opening and closing of folders.

You can open bookmarks in the following ways:
- click: open in current tab
- middle-click (scrollwheel): open in new tab and close minimal bookmarks tree
- ctrl+click: open in new tab and keep minimal bookmarks tree open

You can also right click a folder and click "Open all" to open all bookmarks in that folder in tabs.

Right click also let's you edit/delete bookmarks and folders.

The tree uses simple folder icons that show their state (open/close) and also shows the favicons for the websites you've bookmarked.

The extension remembers which folders were open, so you can leave your favorite folders open at all times.

Additionally the extension enables you to search through your bookmarks and bookmark folders easily by entering 'bm' into the URL bar (or "omnibox" as chrome calls it) and then type your search terms. It is not and will not be possible to search in the popup window itself because this wouldn't add anything to the extension; it would just duplicate behaviour.

The extension needs permission to view and edit your bookmarks, but will only ever edit bookmarks if you instruct it to, it will never change bookmarks on its own.

Minimal bookmarks tree is completely open source and available on github: https://github.com/rpkamp/chrome-minimal-bookmarks-tree

Any and all suggestions are welcome!

Latest reviews

Andreas Fr 2025-10-15: lightweight bookmark dropdown menu, that should be part of chrome from the start, thanks
Steve Harris 2025-07-23: I used to have "Neater Bookmarks" which now no longer works but fortunately came across this terrific extension which is even better than Neater Bookmarks!! The only thing I'd like is if it was possible to choose a custom icon instead of the built in ones but apart from that it's excellent ;-)
Tyler Koch 2025-07-12: This is a great extension, thank you for making it. My only request is the option to disable click and drag sorting. I frequently accidentally click and drag a folder a little bit rather than open it, which feels like the folder is failing to open when I click it.
Lee Hodsdon 2025-06-19: The options for this extension are non-functional. Well, they LOOK that way. No one can see black text on a black background. A drop-down list is shown for the options. The drop-down list presents an empty black panel; i.e., black background with no other-color text (no contrast hence unreadable). I discovered you can click on the down-arrow, and then use the up/down arrow keys to move between the available choices that are otherwise be invisible. My guess is the author has not yet bothered updating the drop-down list to support the dark theme in Google Chrome or in Windows (when apps/programs use the same theme as the OS). Needs a GUI fix to get contrasting colors used in the drop-down listboxes. While you can change which font is used for the text inside the popup window for the bookmarks tree, you cannot select font size (or other attributes, like bolding, italics, etc). I had to test many different fonts (which requires blindly using the up/down arrow keys to scroll through all the fonts) to get one that was about the size that was easy on my eyes, but letting me pick font size would've made the task a lot easier as I could pick a font that looks nice for readability but then choose a size that my old eyes could see easier. I'm glad the author decided to let the user choose between animation speeds. I chose no animation. That's just eye candy. It's one of the first "features" in Windows that I disable. I want menus to open instantly. I don't want to make my computer look like it got slow. A newly discovered bug: this extension add a search engine to Brave, but it is not listed in the search engines (brave://settings/searchEngines). It is a hidden search engine. See https://github.com/rpkamp/chrome-minimal-bookmarks-tree/issues/2 where the author added a "bm" shortcut to search this extension's bookmarks. I had "bm" assigned to Bing Maps, but this extension usurped that shortcut, and without my permission. So, now I cannot define "bm" to open "https://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?q=%s". There is no option to disable this extension's fixed use of "bm" to search its bookmarks nor an option to change the shortcut string. I had to define "bmap" for the Bing Maps shortcut, but I should not have to do so nor should this extension have usurped the "bm" shortcut string. This extension should NOT add a search engine without notifying the user, and this extension should not hide the shortcut string when viewing the list of search engines (MS Edge also lets you define multiple shortcuts for search engines). I find this as rude behavior by this extension. It would be like it usurping Ctrl+P for its search which would then kill the Print function.
Herb Fish 2025-04-11: This is by far the BEST bookmark extension for Chrome. With that said, I would like to offer 3 suggestions: 1) Include an option to change the font size. I would very much like to increase the font size of the bookmarks in tree to make them easier to see with my tired old eyes. 2) Include the capability to add a folder within the tree. This would make it much faster and easier than having to go out to the Chrome bookmark sidebar to accomplish this task. 3) Include an option to change the color of the white star toolbar icon (e.g. yellow, red, blue, etc.). This would allow the extension to stand out much more in a crowed toolbar.
Spuner 2024-11-23: Not a bad extension. It's a pity that there is no search and no way to hide unnecessary folders.
My Mailbox 2024-11-04: great!
ヒトデ祭り 2024-10-29: I would like to be able to choose some folder icons as well.
Martin Eichner 2024-09-10: Best bookmark viewer, but since V3 Chrome shows the standard-icon " a book". i have a star, every restart he show me the standard-icon.. I would like you to please fix that problem. Thank you! So long
Mark Fairbairn 2024-09-10: love this but a recent update (as others have said) the selected bookmark icon (star) reverts to the default icon every time Chrome is reopened. Please fix. :-)
C K 2024-09-09: I really like it! I've got two minor issues with Brave Browser, however: - It doesn't look modern enough (although customizable!) - The icon changes back to standard whenever I change it and restart the browser
rustybud 2024-07-29: can you update to Manifest v3? otherwise "minimal-bookmarks-tree" will be banned by google.
___ “__” 2023-12-12: this Extension is good but if I can select default open root bookmark folder, would be great.
Nil Desperandum 2023-08-19: no search option available
Nil Desperandum 2023-08-19: no search option available
Jeremy Pilot 2023-02-20: Absolutely love it I use bookmarks all day at work and this allows to me to create easy folder that are easy to manipulate and put in order and to move the bookmarks by dragging and dropping instead of having to use the editor. Awesome Extension!
Jeremy Pilot 2023-02-20: Absolutely love it I use bookmarks all day at work and this allows to me to create easy folder that are easy to manipulate and put in order and to move the bookmarks by dragging and dropping instead of having to use the editor. Awesome Extension!
san ryu 2022-11-09: good to use！But the panel width is too narrow
san ryu 2022-11-09: good to use！But the panel width is too narrow
Kento Hosoya 2022-10-05: 最高のブックマーク機能です。こういうのが欲しかった。
Khu NoPie 2022-06-04: Usually great, but won't open in Edge browser as of their latest build
Khu NoPie 2022-06-04: Usually great, but won't open in Edge browser as of their latest build
Cheburashkovich 2022-04-10: Best Firefox like Bookmarks in the world!
Cheburashkovich 2022-04-10: Best Firefox like Bookmarks in the world!
Cameron McDonald 2022-03-28: I use Chrome across iOS, MacOS, Windows and Linux - The iOS environment is a pain in the proverbial when it comes to Chrome bookmarks, essentially I have to store all my bookmarks in the Mobile Bookmarks folder, which itself is a pain to access from the Chrome Bookmarks Bar. This extension makes quickly accessing Mobile Bookmarks SO MUCH easier, thank you. Combined with floccus to sync across to Edge when it needs to be used, this is a great extension!
Cameron McDonald 2022-03-28: I use Chrome across iOS, MacOS, Windows and Linux - The iOS environment is a pain in the proverbial when it comes to Chrome bookmarks, essentially I have to store all my bookmarks in the Mobile Bookmarks folder, which itself is a pain to access from the Chrome Bookmarks Bar. This extension makes quickly accessing Mobile Bookmarks SO MUCH easier, thank you. Combined with floccus to sync across to Edge when it needs to be used, this is a great extension!
AJR 82 2021-12-16: the best bookmark button extension I've found so far! The only small feature that would make it perfect is being able to drag bookmark links to resort the stacked order. as it is you have to open bookmark manager to do that. Big kudos to the dev for adding dark mode and icon options.
AJR 82 2021-12-16: the best bookmark button extension I've found so far! The only small feature that would make it perfect is being able to drag bookmark links to resort the stacked order. as it is you have to open bookmark manager to do that. Big kudos to the dev for adding dark mode and icon options.
yunlei hu 2021-05-25: 您好，优秀的作者，这个很简洁，但是有一个问题，他在我的edge中每个书签的图标显示模糊，是不是程序中图片格式或者图片缩放的bug，希望您修复一下。 Hello, excellent author. This is very concise, but there is a problem. The icon of each bookmark in my edge is blurred. Is it a bug in the image format or image zoom in the program? I hope you can fix it.
Vagg Nakos 2021-03-08: Άψογο !! Το έχω ήδη 3 χρόνια ...δεν το αλλάζω!
Meadow 2021-03-08: Great bookmarks menu extension!
Meadow 2021-03-08: Great bookmarks menu extension!
Party Pat 2021-03-03: No search field.
Party Pat 2021-03-03: No search field.
mil1i 2021-02-21: Currently the best bookmarks menu for the menu bar on Chrome at the moment! Thank you for creating this.
mil1i 2021-02-21: Currently the best bookmarks menu for the menu bar on Chrome at the moment! Thank you for creating this.
Bryan Su 2021-01-22: The best thing - you can open all the url under the subfolder too, even few deep subfolder. this feature is not easily found on other bookmark extension Thing that need to improve to make it great - able to create folder - Stay on, after u select a bookmark to open. this is useful because sometime u want to open multiple url at different folder or subfolder. - make the popup look longer, there is limiation of 600px only. why so little - Copy URL and able to duplicate it at other folder or subfolder. - Able to have search field (this is very important man...)
Bryan Su 2021-01-22: The best thing - you can open all the url under the subfolder too, even few deep subfolder. this feature is not easily found on other bookmark extension Thing that need to improve to make it great - able to create folder - Stay on, after u select a bookmark to open. this is useful because sometime u want to open multiple url at different folder or subfolder. - make the popup look longer, there is limiation of 600px only. why so little - Copy URL and able to duplicate it at other folder or subfolder. - Able to have search field (this is very important man...)
Sulaiman A. 2020-12-23: sehr gut. Vielen Dank
Alejandro Llamas 2020-11-05: It is what I was looking for. Unfortunately it opens all the subfolder with this option disabled.
Alejandro Llamas 2020-11-05: It is what I was looking for. Unfortunately it opens all the subfolder with this option disabled.
Seb 2020-10-01: I love this bookmark menu, especially the optional dark theme. The only thing I would like to add is an option to keep the menu open when clicking on bookmarks. It's very useful when I am simply glancing at multiple sites for driver updates and not having to reopen the bookmark menu each time to find my last spot.
Seb 2020-10-01: I love this bookmark menu, especially the optional dark theme. The only thing I would like to add is an option to keep the menu open when clicking on bookmarks. It's very useful when I am simply glancing at multiple sites for driver updates and not having to reopen the bookmark menu each time to find my last spot.
B WL (bwl) 2020-09-05: Is it me stupid or the extension? Can't use any navigation keys?! (Chrome on Debian). Bummer!
B WL (bwl) 2020-09-05: Is it me stupid or the extension? Can't use any navigation keys?! (Chrome on Debian). Bummer!
Josh Huggins 2020-08-29: Was hoping to use with Edge, but the interface doesn't always respond well to mouse scrolls and getting bookmarks to launch or folders to open. Might be a limitation of Edge not sure. Have not used this extension in Chrome so might be fine there. I do appreciate the effort though!
Josh Huggins 2020-08-29: Was hoping to use with Edge, but the interface doesn't always respond well to mouse scrolls and getting bookmarks to launch or folders to open. Might be a limitation of Edge not sure. Have not used this extension in Chrome so might be fine there. I do appreciate the effort though!
Pato Chantrill 2020-08-04: Simple and clean! I'd suggest making the open star icon and a nice sans serif font as the default so to match chrome's aesthetics and to show the idea of minimalistic (the book with the bookmark doesn't look "minimal"). Good stuff anyway!
Pato Chantrill 2020-08-04: Simple and clean! I'd suggest making the open star icon and a nice sans serif font as the default so to match chrome's aesthetics and to show the idea of minimalistic (the book with the bookmark doesn't look "minimal"). Good stuff anyway!
Dima 2020-08-04: Nice extension, really like all the customization options. There's one irritating issue however: site icons keeps reloading each time I open the menu (which is quite often).

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