Some time ago in the last blog post, I had mentioned that my transition to Mac from Windows had been largely seamless. The transition would have been completely seamless had I not missed the right click on the mouse. Though in Mac the right click context menu is largely ineffective as compared to in Windows, it is a force of habit that one clicks on the right side of the mouse to get the context menu.

Being used to a right click button and the context menu, it was hard at first to adjust. But with the Mighty mouse correctly configured, everything is happy.

I was getting exasperated on not getting that menu. I first started with the plain MacBook Pro in built touchpad mouse & then graduated to the Apple Mouse without the scroll ball (the unmighty mouse). After voicing my exasperations to my wife, she pointed out that on pressing the control key while clicking brings up the context menu & I was happy. Although this was not an elegant solution, it was sufficient for me to work around the inconvenience of not having the right click button. Then I upgraded to the Mighty Mouse. This is the mouse that comes with the little scroll ball and two pressure points on its side. First I was unaware of the function of scroll ball except for scrolling (Duh!) and completely unaware of the function of the force sensing buttons on the sides.

One day when I had a little free time, I was exploring the Mac system preferences. There came the enlightenment to me on how to configure the different buttons on my Mighty mouse to make optimum use of the mouse. The below graphic shows the current configuration of my Mighty Mouse to simulate the right click (Secondary Button). I have no complaints with my Mac and I am very happy with it.

I recently switched over to Mac due to work reasons and did not find it very difficult to switch from a Windows world (except maybe for missing the right click on the mouse). Anyways, I was always a fan of the Google Chrome browser since its launch and could not wait to try it out on Chrome as soon as a beta came out.

When I first installed and fired up the browser, it gracefully imported all my bookmarks from Safari. The problem was later though. When I started using Chrome regularly & started adding more bookmarks, I, being a human, inadvertently made some mistakes & Chrome did not offer me with a way to rectify the mistakes as the Bookmarks Manager was disabled.

The disabled Bookmarks Manager proved to be a big annoyance to many people.

Although as of the latest update from Google, version 5.0.307.9, the Bookmarks manage is active. But believe me, it was not active before that.

I searched a lot on the internet to figure out a way to edit my bookmarks, but the best suggestion I found on the internet was on a Google Chrome Support group forum was to go to the location where the configuration file is stored and edit it there. I am reprinting the same from the forum.

OK, I figured it out.
1) Close Chrome.
2) Open Finder to: Your Home Directory / Library / Application Support / Google / Chrome / Default.
3) Copy the file called Bookmarks to a new file called Bookmarks.now so that you have a backup in case you accidently destroy the current imported bookmarks file.
4) Open "Bookmarks" file with TextEdit
5) You will see 2 sections in the file under "roots", one called "bookmark_bar" and one called "other", take the line from bookmark_bar which will look like this:

"children": [  ],

if you don't have any bookmarks in it yet, and cut and paste it into the "other" section. Take the "children" section from "other" and cut and paste it into "bookmark_bar" including all of your bookmarks between the open and close brackets (will be many, many lines of bookmarks), effectively swapping the children sections between "other" and "bookmark_bar".
6) Save the Bookmarks file.
7) Load Chrome and you should see all of your imported bookmarks in the bookmarks menu, not under the "Other Bookmarks" sub-folder.
8) If you have no bookmarks, go back to that folder and delete Bookmarks and rename Bookmarks.now to Bookmarks to restore your bookmarks to what they were in step 1.

But this method would quickly become cumbersome and ungainly, not because of the amount of work required but because a normal (non-techie) person would forget the location of the file and would have to search for it all over again and may get confused by the syntax.

The star is a shortcut to add a website to your bookmarks.

However, while researching this issue I noticed that the star next to the address bar turns yellow. Clicking on the star opens up a dialog window that allows a user to quickly edit the bookmark properties without a lot of effort. Although the activation of Bookmark Manager has made things a lot more simple, but still using my trick may save people a some time if you want to quickly edit a bookmark