What Are Chrome Bookmarks?

Why Delete Chrome Bookmarks?

Chrome bookmarks are easy to create, either intentionally or accidentally.

A woman deletes bookmarks on Chrome.

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When that happens, it’s a good idea to remove the bookmark to avoid clutter immediately.

If you’re ready for a fresh start, remove all your bookmarks in one fell swoop.

When the page opens, click or press thesolidstarat the right end of the URL bar.

Web page showing star in Chrome URL bar

The star is solid on a bookmarked web page.

If the star is hollow instead of solid, the page isn’t bookmarked.

In that case, clicking the star bookmarks the web page.

Drop-down menu in Chrome to remove a bookmark

ClickRemovein the drop-down menu to delete the bookmark to the web page.

Here’s how:

Open Chrome and enterchrome://bookmarks/in the URL field.

Locate the bookmark you want to delete.

Chrome browser on a computer

Click or tap the(three dots) icon to the right of the bookmark you want to delete.

you could also right-hit the bookmark and delete it instead of clicking theicon.

Click or tapDeletein the pop-up menu.

Bookmarks manager in Chrome

Repeat this process for each additional bookmark you want to delete.

They should all be highlighted.

This process can’t be undone.

Bookmarks manager in Chrome

Open theChromeapp on your mobile rig.

Tap thethree-dot iconto open a menu.

Delete a single bookmarks by swiping to the left on it and tappingDelete.

Folders in the Chrome Bookmarks manager

To delete multiple bookmarks, tapEditand tap each one you want to delete.

Select thethree dotsordown arrowto the right of a bookmark and clickEdit.

On an iPhone, touch and hold the bookmark and tapEdit Bookmark.

A list bookmarks in Chrome

On Android, tapMore>Editnext to a bookmark.

To hide the bookmark bar in Chrome, use theCommand+Shift+Bkeyboard shortcut on macOS orCtrl+Shift+Bon a Windows computer.

Use the same keyboard shortcut to show the bookmark bar again.

Chrome Bookmarks manager

Chrome mobile app

Bookmarks Bar screen in Chrome app