Keyboard shortcut to access Chrome bookmarks (mac)

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I seem to be almost entirely mouse-free at this point, minus being able to access the Bookmarks bar in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut! I've searched the web quite a bit for an answer, but to no avail....any ideas or workaround?

EDIT: Use Firefox. You can CMD + B --> will open Bookmarks navigator, and you can type to search, hit TAB, and then arrow through results

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If you are hoping to click on the actual bookmarks on your Google Chrome browser, using keyboard shortcuts, on Mac, you can make use of Mac's Keyboard shortcuts feature.

  • Open System settings app
  • Open Shortcuts section under Keyboard
  • Choose App shortcuts
  • Click +
  • Choose Google Chrome as application
  • On the title field, enter Bookmarks->{Bookmark-name-goes-here}
  • Set a hotkey

Setting a keyboard shortcut on Mac for Google Chrome bookmarks

Save the changes and you can now use this hotkey to call that bookmark. This basically is setting a shortcut to your browser's menu item.

Holmes is an extension that allows a shortcut activated bookmark search similar to Garrett's answer but without the "read and change all the data on any websites that you visit" permission.

Install the tool then press shift+alt+H

Screenshot of extension

I found a chrome plugin that is super useful and goes beyond what I was hoping for. It's called Bookmark Navigator. Here is the link https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-navigator/bfibpphfhdpgkmbpkfmhdiklgcfmmkha

Below is a picture of what it looks like. The tool is summoned with cmd + b, and then you can start typing to search all of your bookmarks. You can press enter to access the bookmark at top of list, or use arrow keys to navigate further down the list.

This is the fastest and most user friendly option I have found.

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