As you can see, cards have replaced the simple text lines that previously showed your bookmarks. Also, these new cards take up a much more page real estate than the lines or as Dilraj Singh says in BetaNews, "If you have a lot of (junk) bookmarks, it is probably in your best interest to organize/delete them before you switch over to the extention, as each bookmark will take a lot more space, and scrolling through them will be a pain."
This extension will completely override the old system if you download it, so be certain that you want to do this. You can sync up all of your various devices and it will add images and captions to your existing bookmarks. However, be wary. As one reader responded to Patrick Allan's story in Lifehacker, "But can you selectively sync bookmarks on chrome (sic) yet? Really need that feature. Don't mind if they all hit the cloud, but some of my home bookmarks are a bit too racy to sync at work."
This leads into another feature, sharing. By using a link, your folders are able to be made public so that by using a link, you can share with others. So before you share any folders, you may need to clean it out or reorganize to avoid "racy" or just irrelevant sharing.
Additionally, it will automatically organize any your bookmarks by topic, including your existing ones (you can reorganize just as you do now), but will leave your current folders in place and enable a Google Search of them by title, snippet and content.
I have no plans to add this extension as I have not been too excited by the large cards since I have a quite extensive bookmark collection and don't want to have to go through that "pain" to view my bookmarks. I also fear that I might make a folder public inadvertently. If I want to share, I have Google+ and/or this blog.
Formerly leaked as "Stars", Bookmark Manager is available here.
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