Search and saved searches

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Good to know:

• Whole-word matching treats spaces, punctuation, and changes of script as word boundaries, so terms such as C++ and Japanese words match.
• An invalid regular expression shows a warning and is searched as plain text.
• Permanent folders such as the Bookmarks Bar are containers and never match by name.
• When there are more matches than the result limit, a note says how many are shown. Refine the search, or raise Max Search Results in Settings.
• Clearing the search (the clear button, or Esc in the search box) restores the folders you had open before.
• Recent searches are remembered on this device. Click the empty search box, or press Alt+↓ (⌥↓ on a Mac) in it, to list them. Clear them from that list, or turn off Search History in Settings.

Filter in the bookmarks managerCopy Anchor Link

The manager's table has more precise filters. In Chrome, open the browser's bookmarks page to reach it; it opens on your bookmarks bar.

• Search titles and addresses matches text in a bookmark's title or its web address. Press / to jump to it.
• Type, Domain, and Date Added narrow the rows further. More filters adds Filter URLs..., which matches the web address only, and Folder, which keeps the items of the folders you pick.
• Current folder only limits the filters to the folder you are in. When it is off, filters search all bookmarks, each result shows its folder under its title, and the path at the top says Results from all folders.
• Sort by any column from its header. While the table is not in the browser's order, the text beside Browser order names the order it is in; click Browser order to go back.
• The table shows Title, URL, and Date Added, 50 rows a page. Turn on Type, Folder Path, and the other columns under View, and choose the rows per page under the table.
• In a search across folders, a row's menu offers Show in folder: it clears the filters and opens the folder that holds the item, with the item selected.

Link to a folder or a searchCopy Anchor Link

The manager's address follows what you look at, so browser Back and Forward step through folders and searches, and you can bookmark or share a view.

• ?id= names the open folder, as in Chrome's own manager: chrome://bookmarks/?id=12 opens folder 12 in Chrome, and edge://favorites/?id=12 in Edge. Links from Chrome 154 to 156, which named the Bookmarks bar, Other bookmarks, and Mobile bookmarks by a long ID, open those folders too. Without ?id=, the manager opens on the bookmarks bar; Bookmarks at the start of the folder path shows the top level.
• ?q= is the search: chrome://bookmarks/?q=react opens the manager searching titles and addresses for "react". While you type in Search titles and addresses, the address follows, and one burst of typing is one Back step. A search wins over the folder; the folder still applies when Current folder only is checked.
• Copy link to this folder, next to the folder path in the header and in a folder row's menu, copies that address. In Firefox it copies the manager page's own address. Chrome and Edge keep showing the address you opened the manager with, even as you move between folders.
• The tab title names the folder, or the search while you search.

Save a searchCopy Anchor Link

A saved search keeps the manager's current filters, sort, and folder scope under a name, so you can reopen the same view later.

To use one, open Saved searches and choose it. Its filters and sort replace the current ones, and if it was limited to one folder, the manager returns to that folder. Each entry can be renamed or deleted, and a deletion can be undone from the message that follows.

A saved search stores the filter definitions, never copies of bookmarks, so its results always match your bookmarks as they are now. If a folder it names was deleted, that folder is skipped, the other filters still apply, and a message says how many folders were skipped.

Saved searches stay in this browser's local extension storage and are not synced, because their filters can reveal what you bookmark and folder IDs differ between devices. You can keep up to 50.