The browser extension

What it does

The extension adds a Bookmark Manager button to your browser's toolbar. On any website, click it (or press Alt+Shift+B) and a small window opens with Bookmark Manager's bookmark form: the page's address and name are already filled in. Choose the folder, group and tags — or make a new folder or group right there — add a note if you like, and click Save. The window closes by itself.

If you already bookmarked that page, its edit form opens instead, so you can see where it is and change it rather than adding it twice.

It works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and Firefox (version 140 or newer), on Windows and Linux, with Bookmark Manager on your own computer or on a team server. Safari isn't supported.

Installing it

Pick your browser. The extension is free and works with any Bookmark Manager license.

The same buttons are in Bookmark Manager: click the extension button (the puzzle piece) in its top bar. It sees which browser you use and shows the right one, with your Bookmark Manager's address to copy.

Chrome, Brave and Opera

1. Click Add to Chrome, Edge, Brave or Opera (or Add to your browser in Bookmark Manager's extension dialog). It opens the extension's page in the Chrome Web Store.
2. Click Add to Chrome, then Add extension.
3. Pin it: click the puzzle-piece icon in the toolbar and the pin next to Bookmark Manager.
4. Enter your Bookmark Manager's address once (see First setup).

The browser keeps the extension up to date from the store.

Edge

Edge installs it from the same Chrome Web Store page. The first time, Edge asks to Allow extensions from other stores: click Allow, then Add to Chrome and Add extension.

Firefox

1. In Firefox, click Add to Firefox (or Add to Firefox in Bookmark Manager's extension dialog).
2. Firefox asks once whether the site may install add-ons: click Continue to Installation, then Add.
3. Enter your Bookmark Manager's address once (see First setup).

The extension is signed by Mozilla and stays installed. Firefox shows that it sends the page you bookmark (“browsing activity”) to your Bookmark Manager, which is what it does — see What it can see. It needs Firefox 140 or newer. (Bookmark Manager 1.0.0 only offered a temporary add-on for testing; update to 1.0.1 or later, or use the button above.)

Without the store (developer mode)

For a computer that can't reach the Chrome Web Store, Bookmark Manager also has the extension as a download. In its extension dialog, open Install without the store (developer mode):

1. Click Download the extension and unzip it into a folder you keep, for example Documents/Bookmark Manager extension. The browser loads it from there, so don't delete the folder.
2. Open chrome://extensions (Edge: edge://extensions, Brave: brave://extensions, Opera: opera://extensions) in the address bar. The dialog shows the right one with a Copy button.
3. Turn on Developer mode (top right; in Edge, in the left-hand menu).
4. Click Load unpacked and choose the unzipped folder.
5. Pin it from the puzzle-piece icon, click it once and enter your Bookmark Manager's address.

A developer-mode copy doesn't update by itself, and Chrome and Edge may warn about it when they start. When the computer can reach the store, switch to the store version (see Changing the address or removing it).

First setup

Right after you add the extension, its setup page opens (or click its toolbar button once). Enter your Bookmark Manager's address — the one you open it at in this browser — and click Save:

• On your own computer it's usually http://localhost:5280.
• On a team server, the address your admin gave you, for example http://bookmarks.example.lan:5280 or https://bookmarks.yourcompany.com.

The extension dialog in Bookmark Manager shows this address with a Copy button. Open Bookmark Manager on the setup page checks it: it should open your bookmarks.

On a team server, sign in to Bookmark Manager in that browser once. The extension uses that sign-in; it never sees or stores your password.

Using it

• Bookmark a page: click the Bookmark Manager button on any website, or press Alt+Shift+B. Pick the folder (and group), add tags and notes, and click Save. Cancel or Esc closes the window without saving.
• A new folder or group on the spot: New folder next to Folder makes one at the top level or inside any folder (a sub-folder); New group next to Group makes one in the folder you chose. Either one is chosen for the bookmark right away. See Folders, tags and views.
• Already bookmarked? The edit form opens: change the folder, group, tags or notes, or delete it. A page in a folder someone shared with you (with edit access) opens too.
• The name is the page's own title; change it before saving if you like. The environment badge (DEV, TEST, PROD…) is picked from the address as usual.
• Pages that aren't websites — the new-tab page, the browser's settings, files — open an empty form, because the extension only takes http and https addresses.
• Another shortcut: change Alt+Shift+B at chrome://extensions/shortcuts (Edge: edge://extensions/shortcuts, Brave: brave://extensions/shortcuts). In Firefox: about:addons → the gear → Manage Extension Shortcuts.

What it can see

• Only the address and name of the tab you click it on, at the moment you click. It can't read your history, other tabs, the content of pages, or your browser's own bookmarks, and it does nothing in the background.
• It sends them only to your Bookmark Manager — the address you entered — by opening its form. Nothing goes to Studer Works or anyone else; there's no tracking or analytics.
• It stores one setting in your browser: your Bookmark Manager's address (synced with your browser profile if you use browser sync).
• The permissions it asks for are just these: activeTab (the tab you clicked it on) and storage (the address).

Changing the address or removing it

• Another Bookmark Manager (for example after moving to a team server): open your browser's extensions page, find Bookmark Manager and open its Details → Extension options (Firefox: about:addons → Bookmark Manager → Options). Enter the new address and click Save.
• Removing it: on the extensions page, click Remove. Your bookmarks stay in Bookmark Manager; the extension doesn't keep any of them.
• From developer mode to the store: if you added it in developer mode before, remove that copy first and then add the one from the Chrome Web Store, so you don't have two buttons.

Troubleshooting

• Clicking the button opens the setup page: the address isn't saved yet. Enter it and click Save.
• The window shows a sign-in page: sign in there, and the form opens with the page filled in. Your browser keeps you signed in after that.
• The window can't reach the site: check the address with Open Bookmark Manager on the setup page. It must be the same address (including http or https and the port) you open Bookmark Manager at.
• A warning about developer-mode extensions when the browser starts: Chrome and Edge show it for extensions added that way. Close it and keep the extension, or remove that copy and add the extension from the Chrome Web Store instead: the warning goes away.
• No button in the toolbar: it's hidden under the browser's puzzle-piece icon. Pin it from there.
• Gone after restarting Firefox: that was a temporary add-on (Bookmark Manager 1.0.0). Update Bookmark Manager and use Add to Firefox: the signed extension stays.
• “This copy isn't licensed, so it's read-only” instead of the form: Bookmark Manager has no valid license, so nothing can be added until a key is entered. See Your license.