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The bookmarks bar centers the bookmarks by default. I would like to see an option to have them left justified. Please see picture.

    20 days later

    Bookmarks currently are automatically centered right under the address bar, would love the ability to change it to start on the leftmost side if possible.

      9 months later
      Merged 2 posts from Option to have bookmarks on the left side (instead of center).
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        Currently, when the Bookmarks Bar is shown, any existing bookmarks are centered along the horizontal length of the bar. In my view, the bookmarks should, by default, be aligned to the left, similar to the convention practiced by other browsers (e.g. Chrome, Firefox, etc.), with the option to keep the existing center alignment hidden in the right-click context menu of the bar.

        Bookmarks in the Bookmarks Bar will be placed directly to the right of the "bookmark" icon which is already aligned to the left of the bar (which opens the Bookmarks window when clicked on).

          Ah, this is in fact a duplicate of that linked post. Apologies, @laiz - feel free to merge it.

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              Having the bookmar in the center with a small number of bookmarks feels way too unnatural. They are made much too prominent without the need of them to be as such.

              I just signed up on the feedback forum only to post this, since its just a visual sore.

                TheJuli It has been this way in Safari I believe for the last 20 years and is how other native Apple apps have been doing it. Can you give bit more context about your perception?

                  Vlad Oh, I had no idea how Safari does it. I have never used. I personally came from Chromium and only have two bookmark folders. The thing is that having only one tab open, the bookmarks bar sort of feels like its the only tab open with the folder name looking like its the tab. If you have more than one tab open, then you can discern between the tabs and the bookmarks.

                  I understand the design decision to keep them in the middle to conform to what Safari is doing, and as such I only suggest to add an option to allow the users to start align the bookmarks in the bookmarks bar. It does not have to be the default behaviour.

                    It is how Safari does it but I'm not really sure what Apple was thinking. As far as I know, they very rarely use center-aligned text elements in UI that is customisable by the user. Left-aligned is better for usability, in my opinion, because once a bookmark is located in the bar, its position will not change unless the user manually moves it around. As it stands, the position of every bookmark changes to accomodate the addition of a new one; I don't think this is a good user experience.

                    As @TheJuli mentioned, having them centered also conveys the idea that they constitute an always important navigation element for every webpage, when the bookmarks bar should be best understood as a user-managed drawer whose items are always within reach.

                    Personally, I no longer use the bookmarks bar because of the center alignment, I have that much of a gripe. Instead, I just have regular bookmarks which I quickly access by typing into the address bar, or through the Start page.

                    I would like the option to left justify the bookmarks bar, and left justify the address bar too. Those would ease my move from Firefox.

                      The bookmarks bar is currently centered. For a user with only 2-3 bookmarks, this means that the bookmarks are placed too far from the pinned and open tabs from the left. Additionally centered text looks weird, but that's subjective.

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                          We will add the option, but most likely people will not find it as no browser has this option 🙂

                            4 months later

                            Vlad My guess is that many people migrating from Chrom*/Firefox will search and find this thread 😃

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