Review: Delicious Extension for Chrome

Delicious, the tastily-named social bookmarking website, recently released an extension for Google Chrome. As a convert to the Chrome browser for the past two months now (everything else in my life is Google, so why not?), this was the biggest sticking point when I moved from Firefox - in that browser, the extension opens in a sidebar where you can see your bookmarks sorted by tags or use the search bar to search for a specific tag or bookmark.

The Chrome extension, on the other hand, takes all of your Delicious bookmarks and dumps them in Chrome's bookmark menu, in a folder marked "Delicious - DO NOT DELETE" - an unsophisticated way of warning users that deleting that folder would erase all of the bookmarks on Delicious' site. There's no way of searching for anything, which makes people large amounts of bookmarks - those who are using Delicious in the first place - are left to wade through hundreds of unorganized bookmarks.

The other appealing aspect of Delicious, the ability to sync and access your bookmarks anywhere, has been negated by Chrome's bookmark syncing feature, so no loss there. The extension says "beta" all over the place, and the developers mention that there's a lot more functionality left to put into it. I should hope so, because until you can search and organize, the bookmarks are a hot mess. I still plan to add bookmarks to Delicious - that functionality in Chrome is as full featured as Firefox - but I'm dual-saving it to my Chrome extensions, too.