Click on the Bookmarks menu and choose Add Bookmark.Navigate to the web site you want to add to your Bookmarks Bar (e.g.Open up Apple Safari in your usual manner.You can reposition it within the Bookmarks Toolbar by clicking on the icon for the site and dragging it to a different location. You may find that after you click on Done, the link might not appear in the desired position in the Bookmarks Toolbar.In the window that appears, next to Folder:, select Bookmarks Toolbar.Click on the Bookmarks menu and choose Bookmark this Page.Navigate to the web site you want to add to your Bookmarks Toolbar (e.g.Open up Mozilla Firefox in your usual manner.
NOTE: The following Windows 7 screenshots can also be applied to Macintosh computers.
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For good measure, I also disabled the Google Stars bookmarking tool, but I don't think many other people were able to install it before it was pulled from the Chrome Web Store.Īlso, seeing how disturbing it was to lose my bookmarks like this, I've backed up that bookmarks file lest it disappears on my again. That's what ended up restoring my bookmarks for me.
The other is that Google was punishing me for trying out its upcoming, updated bookmarking tool, Google Stars (or a change to Stars corrupted my bookmarks file). One is that I signed into a different, less-used computer over the weekend-one that hadn't been synced yet with my regular computer's Chrome settings and bookmarks-so that newer instance of Chrome "reset," in a sense, my bookmarks back to zero. There are two possible plausible explanations for my saved bookmarks' vanishing act. After searching a bit online, I found this isn't an uncommon issue. All my carefully organized and saved sites gone. This morning I opened up Chrome as usual and was horrified to find my bookmarks bar nearly empty.