Bookmark all tabs and import/export bookmarks

[DragoCubed]

Is your feature request fall into the scope of ungoogled-chromium?
Please explain why the feature request aligns with the goal of ungoogled-chromium. [...]
In one word: freedom. Google currently tells users to use Chrome Sync to open all of their tabs from their mobile device on their desktop device and to bookmark all of them there. You also cannot import or export bookmarks.

Please describe the feature you would like to have
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Users are trapped with tabs (and bookmarks)

Describe the solution you'd like
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Bookmark all tabs and import/export bookmarks (if not added already). The Brave and Chromium issues linked below have a bunch of ideas. Basically the consensus is:

• a bookmark all tabs menu item in the tab switcher
• a dialog like the download dialog that lets you add a name to the folder and choose a parent folder. the default name is "New folder" and the default location is the mobile bookmarks folder and then the last set location. Tapping on the folder part of the dialog would show the choose bookmark folder screen that lets you select a parent folder.
• tab groups would be a subfolder and retain their name

Bromite patch for importing/exporting bookmarks

Describe alternatives you've considered
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Perhaps exporting and importing tabs to a file? This is what various extensions such as The Great Suspender do.

Additional context
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brave/brave-browser#9443
Download prompt:

Choose folder:

Edit bookmark:

Bookmark all tabs dialog on desktop:

[wchen342]

I think this is a reasonable feature. I have one question though, the first screenshot you posted is showing downloading of an apk. What is that related to?

PS: I saw your issue at Bromite. I think if you explained as you did here maybe @csagan5 will consider this too.

EDIT: ok I see it is just an example for saving the bookmarks. Now I get the idea.

[DragoCubed]

Thank you for your reply!
yeah. as you figured out, the download prompt is one point of inspiration for the UI. The UI could alternatively be the like the edit bookmark screen. One's a dialog, the other is fullscreen. People were suggesting the dialog in various places but perhaps a screen would be more suitable.
By the way here's Google's response. I've seen them mention using Sync elsewhere but I've only bookmarked that one.

[DragoCubed]

@wchen342 google literally said this: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1026222#c20 and marked it as wontfix with a bunch of bullshit

[wchen342]

Well I won't comment on why they made the decision but technically it shouldn't be so hard for them to add this (they don't even need to modify C++ codes, only Android codes unless they want to optimize for opening 100+ tabs at the same time, but I doubt Android can handle that many tabs anyway).

[csagan5]

PS: I saw your issue at Bromite. I think if you explained as you did here maybe @csagan5 will consider this too.

Ok, so this is a feature which already works on desktop. The only difficult part to implement would be the dialog, see https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/83.0.4103.93/chrome/browser/ui/bookmarks/bookmark_utils_desktop.cc#L181 (I don't think that is going to work on Android).

This feature has gone through some evolution, see the original implementation in 2009: chromium/chromium@b3ac5c8#diff-ef00add727ca12536c383b5f9e8fffbeR626

The feature could be implemented without the UI, using some automatically-generated folder name. I might add it in such way in Bromite.

[wchen342]

@csagan5 Interesting. It seems only the open window part needs to be substituted. If you are going to work on this then I will leave this to you.

[csagan5]

@wchen342 not on the window part, you can work on that if you like - either now or after I have some PoC.

[wchen342]

Moved to https://git.droidware.info/wchen342/ungoogled-chromium-android/issues/26