Google Chrome: Use Bookmarklets to Create a Customized Toolbar
Posted by Rob Rogers in Google
By using bookmarklets, you can compensate for Chrome’s lack of support for extensions. You can create a customized toolbar to utilize the functionality of other sites like StumbleUpon, Delicious, Evernote, and others.
Here’s some good bookmarklets to start with. Simply drag any of these links to Chrome’s Bookmarks bar:
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What bookmarklets do you use?
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October 04, 2008 at 4:53 am, crispinr said:
‘Share on FaceBook’ would be great!
October 15, 2008 at 4:47 am, BlaqueSaber said:
Cool
Thanks so much…I’ll be putting these to use
December 27, 2008 at 8:53 am, Drew said:
I use “Download YouTube HD” from http://www.sizlopedia.com/2008/12/20/download-youtube-hd-videos-in-mp4/ Lets you download the new HD videos from youtube as an .mp4 with the click of a button. Thanks for this list, keep adding to it!
June 03, 2009 at 1:46 pm, angki said:
For sharing to your Facebook profile you can make new bookmark “Share on Facebook”
and paste this link below to the URL field:
javascript:var d=document,f=’http://www.facebook.com/share’,l=d.location,e=encodeURIComponent,p=’.php?src=bm&v=4&i=1234538055&u=’+e(l.href)+’&t=’+e(d.title);1;try{if (!/^(.*.)?facebook.[^.]*$/.test(l.host))throw(0);share_internal_bookmarklet(p)}catch(z) {a=function() {if (!window.open(f+’r'+p,’sharer’,'toolbar=0,status=0,resizable=1,width=626,height=436′))l.href=f+p};if (/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent))setTimeout(a,0);else{a()}}void(0)
or simply drag this link to your Bookmark bar Share on Facebook
June 03, 2009 at 1:48 pm, angki said:
Sorry,
it should be:
or simply drag this link to your Bookmark bar Share on Facebook
June 19, 2009 at 2:26 pm, Jan Collet said:
How does the link look like when you want to share to your Facebook Page?
November 17, 2009 at 2:10 pm, Simon said:
go to the below link to get the bookmarklet for sharing on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/share_options.php
April 05, 2010 at 4:25 am, Anonymous said:
this is great
May 07, 2010 at 2:40 pm, Anonymous said:
Try it!
September 07, 2010 at 4:25 pm, Martin Mucino II said:
ya dig
July 14, 2011 at 11:16 pm, giusy887 said:
javascript:var d=document,f=’http://www.facebook.com/share’,l=d.location,e=encodeURIComponent,p=’.php?src=bm&v=4&i=1257009031&u=’+e(l.href)+’&t=’+e(d.title);1;try{if (!/^(.*.)?facebook.[^.]*$/.test(l.host))throw(0);share_internal_bookmarklet(p)}catch(z) {a=function() {if (!window.open(f+’r'+p,’sharer’,'toolbar=0,status=0,resizable=1,width=626,height=436′))l.href=f+p};if (/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent))setTimeout(a,0);else{a()}}void(0)
Drag this link to your Bookmark bar Share on Facebook