Is there a version of Chrome or Chromium whose bookmarks are visible to the HUD?

Solution 1:

Earlier versions of Chromium did have the bookmarks and full history exposed to the application menu and the HUD. The Chromium developers felt that Dbusmenu's implementation slowed their startup time too much, so they disabled it.

Since then we've drastically improved the speed of Dbusmenu requests, so it shouldn't be an issue, but someone needs to work with them to restore the feature in Chromium.

• http://www.chromium.org/for-testers/bug-reporting-guidelines/

Solution 2:

The HUD (at least in 12.04) simply provides access to the same items provided in the menus at the top of the application. (The menus accessed by moving the mouse to the top panel.)

In Firefox, there is a Bookmarks menu - this means your bookmarks are also accessible through the HUD.

In Chromium, there is no Bookmarks menu. The bookmarks menu is instead accessed via the wrench. This is why your bookmarks are not available in the HUD.