Google has launched a brand new sidebar characteristic to Chrome, which helps you to rapidly entry your bookmarks and studying listing whereas utilizing the desktop model of the browser (through 9to5Google). Beforehand, the studying listing’s principal house was as a button on the bookmark bar, which not everybody has enabled.
Clicking the aspect panel button, which seems like a rectangle with a shaded portion on the fitting aspect, will present or conceal the panel. When you’ve received it open, you may entry the identical studying listing features that have been obtainable within the outdated UI, together with the power so as to add the web page you’re at present on to your listing, mark objects as learn, or take away them. You may also change over to the bookmarks tab to browse your saved pages.
It’s a pleasant change for many who need quick access to their studying listing and bookmarks with out essentially wanting an ever-present bookmark bar. Clicking on the button brings up the sidebar, set to whichever tab you left it on final, after which you may simply conceal it again away once you get to the web site you need. The studying listing needs to be obtainable if you happen to’re utilizing the newest Chrome 99 replace.
P.S. — if you happen to’re like one Verge employees member and dislike the aspect panel, you may flip it off by going to chrome://flags/ and looking out “aspect panel.” Then, set the #side-panel characteristic to disabled. After you re-launch chrome, the studying listing will once more be its personal button on the bookmarks bar.
