Need help configuring the two most popular browsers to display your favorites bar? This quick article walks you through the steps to enable the bookmarks bar to appear in Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
Option 1: Show a favorites bar in Chrome
- Click the menu in the top right corner of your Chrome browser. Then point to: Bookmarks and Lists and Show bookmark bar.
A favorites bar is now available at the top of your browser.
Unfortunately, as you can see, my Chrome bookmarks bar has become cluttered. You can get better results by creating folders and organizing your favorite sites into folders.
- To create a folder in your Chrome browser bookmarks bar, right-click anywhere on the bar. after that Add folder option.
- Finally, rename the “New Folder” to whatever name you want. Then, select whether to add the folder to ‘Bookmarks Bar’ or ‘Other Bookmarks’ and click Next. get.
- After creating a new folder, you can drag your existing favorite websites into the folder. Alternatively, you can add new websites as favorites in a new folder.
To add a page to a folder, open it. Then right-click on the folder in the bar and Add a page.
You can use the same steps to remove saved bookmarks from a bar or folder.
Option 2: Show bookmarks bar in new Edge
- Click the menu icon (three dots) at the top right of Microsoft Edge setting.
- On the settings page figure.
- Finally, scroll down to ‘Customize Toolbars’ and Show favorites bar Select ‘Always’ from the dropdown.
After completing the steps above, Edge will display a favorites bar at the top of the browser.
Just like in Chrome, you can organize your bookmarked websites into folders. To create a new folder or add pages to a folder, right-click on the bookmarks bar and select the required option.
Frequently Asked Questions
How to set up your favorite bar in Windows 10 depends on the browser you’re using. This guide shows steps for Chrome and Edge browsers.
If you don’t see the Chrome bookmarks bar at the top of your browser, you can display it temporarily by clicking the Chrome browser menu (three dots) in the top right.
The next steps point to: Bookmarks and Lists and choose Show all bookmarks.
The favorites bar in the Edge browser does not stay on top unless you select the “Always” option. Show favorites bar Fall down.
To see Show favorites bar Open edge://settings/appearance from the dropdown (make sure you’re reading this article in Edge before clicking this link) and scroll down to “Custom Toolbars.” finally Show favorites bar Select ‘Always’ from the dropdown.
In some ways, bookmarks and favorites are the same. However, while bookmark This is where you save the websites you visit regularly. Favorites See the websites you have saved in your bookmarks.
To back up your bookmarks in Chrome, click the Chrome menu (three dots in the top right). Then point to ‘Bookmarks and Lists’ and select it. bookmark manager.
finally organize Menu (three vertical dots on the right) bookmark manager page) and select Export bookmarks.
Similarly, to back up your Mdge browser bookmarks, right-click on the bookmarks bar and Manage Favorites. Finally, click on the More Options menu (three vertical dots on the right). Manage Favorites page) and select Export your favorites.
conclusion
Creating and managing bookmarks is very simple. But what good is your saved favorite websites if you can’t easily access them?
Luckily, the new Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome offer a setting to set the browser to always show the bookmarks bar.
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Other Useful Resources
- Create, find, and edit bookmarks in Chrome – Computer – Google Chrome Help
- View the Favorites bar in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 – Microsoft Support
- Open the full Favorites bar in Microsoft Edge – Microsoft Support