Remove unnecessary "edit" dialog after adding a bookmark

[Brave-Matt]

Description

Part of the Chromium bookmarks "upgrades", there is now an additional dialog box that appears after adding a bookmark, that only says you've added the bookmark and has Edit and Done options on it.

Clicking Edit reveals the edit bookmark drop-down that is what previously appeared after adding a bookmark. This additional dialog doesn't provide any value to us and only requires additional work for the users. I suggest we remove this entirely and revert to the old behavior.

Community thread on the issue:
https://community.brave.com/t/editing-name-and-folder-of-new-bookmarks/528195

[Brave-Matt]

+1 https://community.brave.com/t/the-new-way-to-select-bookmark-folders-when-bookmarking-a-website/528186

[mpql]

A temporary work-around is to paste chrome://flags/#simplified-bookmark-save-flow into your address bar and set the highlighted setting, "Simplified Bookmark Save Flow" to Disabled.

I say "temporary" because these settings are removed sometimes.

[Ryan-Porter66]

That workaround works for now.

Hopefully, this can get addressed quickly - Edge still has this functionality.
A lot of good features have been changed for the worse lately.

[JunkiEDM]

A temporary work-around is to paste chrome://flags/#simplified-bookmark-save-flow into your address bar and set the highlighted setting, "Simplified Bookmark Save Flow" to Disabled.

Unfortunately temporary didn't last very long, this flag is gone in the latest nightly build.
For the meantime I guess a janky workaround could be to triple-click the bookmark button until a proper fix.

[Ryan-Porter66]

Any new workaround(s) since the flag is now gone from normal build, or is this more Chromium "QoL updates" that just regresses everything like normal?

[HugoPerseval]

Any new workaround(s) since the flag is now gone from normal build, or is this more Chromium "QoL updates" that just regresses everything like normal?

I downloaded the old update 121.1.63.154, and moved the files of this update to the brave folder, and forbade installing the update through another program.

[JcynR]

I just received the latest update and that option is now gone unfortunately! Very annoying, Brave should address this because I bookmark A LOT and the extra click to edit it is very annoying.

[zhaoruibing]

Really hope this could be fixed. In the meantime,

Workaround 1: use a bookmark extension instead, like Bookmark Plus.
Downside is the shortcut won't be Ctrl+D.

Workaround 2: downgrade and hold at v1.62.165.
WARNING: not using the latest version implies security risks.

1. Download Release v1.62.165
2. Uninstall Brave, select keep browser data.
3. Install Release v1.62.165.
4. Set flag brave://flags/#simplified-bookmark-save-flow to 'Disabled'.
5. Disable Brave auto update.
6. Relaunch Brave.
7. (Remember to undo the above when Brave fixes this issue.)

[Bidonh]

Really hope this could be fixed. In the meantime,

Workaround 1: use a bookmark extension instead, like Bookmark Plus. Downside is the shortcut won't be Ctrl+D.

That extension works really well and you can use any shortcut you want.
Including Ctrl + D.
Modify it here brave://extensions/shortcuts

[Saoiray]

@bsclifton and @rebron Some have opened a Chromium ticket at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41496433 but from what I'm seeing, this was an upstream change and they intentionally moved flag out of the browser. Curious to see if they see this as a wontfix.

There are a moderate amount of people complaining on this change. But guess big question is, what's the priority for this compared to everything else? Would I be correct in thinking this is pretty much something that needs to be resolved upstream and unlikely to get much attention here downstream with Brave?

[rebron]

@Saoiray Thanks for the pointer to the chromium issue. My preference is the previous UI is well. We'll need to take a look to see how much effort it is to maintain the old dialog.

[rebron]

Per @mkarolin, it sounds like we can "auto press" the Edit button here and get us into the next/proper dialog.
cc: @simonhong wdyt?

[simonhong]

Per @mkarolin, it sounds like we can "auto press" the Edit button here and get us into the next/proper dialog. cc: @simonhong wdyt?

I think we should go non-simplified path (launch edit dialog directly) always.
It would be quick. working now.

[Saoiray]

Awesome. I'm sure a lot of people will be happy if this can be implemented. Thanks for looking into it.

[kjozwiak]

The above requires 1.63.172 or higher for 1.63.x verification 👍

[GeetaSarvadnya]

Verification PASSED on

Brave | 1.63.174 Chromium: 122.0.6261.128 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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Revision | 0d369d4e1dfee7bcea82774079dc8cd658746c98
OS | Windows 10 Version 22H2 (Build 19045.4046)

Reproduced the original issue using the STR/Cases outlined via #35594 (comment) using 1.63.169 Chromium: 122.0.6261.111 as per the following:

Using the STR/Cases mentioned via #35594 (comment), ensured that the new behaviour didn't display two modals as per the following: