Yosemite safari bookmarks suck!

Question

I decided to give Safari a try after years of Chrome, since they've changed so much in Yosemite.
But I can't get my head around bookmarks, mainly because Safari does the spinny beachball of death when I try.
It has imported my Chrome bookmarks. I probably have about 10,000 bookmarks all up, sorted in folders that go back several years. On chrome, I have an extension that lets me search them using sensible search ideas (such as "I remember bookmarking a site about 2 years ago, search only old bookmarks"). I rely on bookmarks, and many if not all of the "online" bookmark managers I've tried have all come, gone, and/or never really worked. I'm the sort of person who remembers sites I bookmarked in Netscape Gold in 1998 - I've been exporting and importing these bookmarks ever since.
Safari has decided to throw away icons on my bookmark bar. In chrome, I've shortened all the names of these links to 1 letter because in Chrome I only use the sites' favicon as the identification (I have about 30 sites I regularly reference, so 30 icons). That doesn't seem to be an option in Safari and so the bookmark bar is now utterly worthless.
Safari seems also to have changed the way you navigate deep folders. You click on the icon, wait (hoping not to see the beachball) for the list to open. If you use the bookmark manager, it integrates the list of folders into the list of bookmarks. This differs from Chrome where folders are kept seperate from the list of bookmarks in the folders - which I think is much better for when you want to organise files. Dragging a deep-nested set of links to a shallow-nested set of links in Chrome is simple because you have seperation between the organisational elements. In safari it means drag-scolling up and down the list waiting for folder popping. This is dreadful.
So, are there any exceptional bookmark managers for Safari that can handle date-based searching, find and collapse duplicates, find variations on a url, and do link checking?

Answer 1

I decided to give Safari a try after years of Chrome, since they've changed so much in Yosemite.
But I can't get my head around bookmarks, mainly because Safari does the spinny beachball of death when I try.
It has imported my Chrome bookmarks. I probably have about 10,000 bookmarks all up, sorted in folders that go back several years. On chrome, I have an extension that lets me search them using sensible search ideas (such as "I remember bookmarking a site about 2 years ago, search only old bookmarks"). I rely on bookmarks, and many if not all of the "online" bookmark managers I've tried have all come, gone, and/or never really worked. I'm the sort of person who remembers sites I bookmarked in Netscape Gold in 1998 - I've been exporting and importing these bookmarks ever since.
Safari has decided to throw away icons on my bookmark bar. In chrome, I've shortened all the names of these links to 1 letter because in Chrome I only use the sites' favicon as the identification (I have about 30 sites I regularly reference, so 30 icons). That doesn't seem to be an option in Safari and so the bookmark bar is now utterly worthless.
Safari seems also to have changed the way you navigate deep folders. You click on the icon, wait (hoping not to see the beachball) for the list to open. If you use the bookmark manager, it integrates the list of folders into the list of bookmarks. This differs from Chrome where folders are kept seperate from the list of bookmarks in the folders - which I think is much better for when you want to organise files. Dragging a deep-nested set of links to a shallow-nested set of links in Chrome is simple because you have seperation between the organisational elements. In safari it means drag-scolling up and down the list waiting for folder popping. This is dreadful.
So, are there any exceptional bookmark managers for Safari that can handle date-based searching, find and collapse duplicates, find variations on a url, and do link checking?