Google Chrome: Add a Send Link Button to the Bookmarks Bar

Contributor Icon Contributed by shamanstears Date Icon September 8, 2008  
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Most browsers provide you with a way to easily email a link to the page you are currently viewing. When clicked, your default email application will produce a new message with the link in the body and the page title in the Subject line and the To field left blank for you to address. This functionality is missing from Chrome, but can easily added by creating a button on the Bookmarks bar.


1. Open Chrome.

2. Right-click the Bookmarks bar and select Add Page.

3. In the Name textbox, input the word Send Link.

4. In the URL textbox, input the following:
javascript:location.href='mailto:?SUBJECT='+document.title+'&BODY='+escape(location.href);

5. Make sure that the Bookmarks bar folder is selected and click OK.

or just drag this link to your Bookmarks bar: Send Link.

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  • Kipp
    This is awesome, thanks!!
  • crispinr
    hi - how would I amend your (great) script so I can force the Send To to use GMail? Thanks!
  • I've noticed that people have been having mixed results with trying to do this. I would recommend using an application called ChromeMailer to easily set Gmail as the default for all mailto: links. It requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
  • DavidP
    Excellent! Thanks.
  • Asm
    Hi, first I apologize for my ignorance, I really do. I have followed the instructions as above. I thus have "send to" link in the bookmark folder . Here is the ignorant part: I click on it and nothing happens. No form pops up. I tried to highlight some text then click on send to, still nothing....I highlight the address bar and click on send to, nothing....
  • john
    Freaking amazing! Thanks much. Gotta believe Google will add this upon vrelease!1
  • John
    How easy was that ! Have been annoyed ever since first using Chrome that there was no way to send a link but with a few simple strokes problem solved. Thanks, Cheers, John.
  • John
    Maybe I wrote too soon, have tried several sites and when I try to send link I get the following message
    Error 300 (net::ERR_INVALID_URL): Unknown error.
    What to do now ?? John.
  • John
    Relax John, silly me got : and ; wrong. All OK now Thanks again sorry for my mistake, have deleted first try. John.
  • Jonna Mackin
    You left no way to comment and paste in the url once you are in the add page screen, so I had to type in the url for send link, which was a pain!
  • Jo
    Genius!
  • I use this functionality all the time. Excellent, thank you.

    Now how about those pesky mouse gestures, grrrr.
  • B alert
    lack of Send Link button had been a big inconvenience using Chrome.
    Big improvement now, thank you; ' may make Chrome my default browser
    if I can learn how to import bookmarks etc from Firefox rather than I.E..

    ('only open IE to install critical updates.)
  • CJV
    Dude you have just democratized javascript!
    Thanks,
    CJV
  • DavidL
    Nice work...however I would prefer to have this as a menu item, instead of having to toggle the Bookmarks Bar each time...any suggestions?
  • Hussein
    Works ..Thanks .
  • Joe
    Very Nice Thanks
  • ravi7640
    Great ! It works perfectly. Chrome team should make this feature official.
  • Ali
    the instructions above were just perfect and helped... now, i can send link as easy as it is in IE...
  • PK2009
    That's really cool. If you had a whole set of bookmarks in a folder, how would you send all the links together in one email and then choose the subject title? The code seems to work for single sites.

    Thanks,

    PK
  • Svet
    This works. But how do you send an actual page in an e-mail (not the link)?
  • mecheng
    How go I get gmail to be my default email program?
  • mecheng
    More to the poit how do I get the send link button to send a gmail message?
  • I have the french version of google chrome. What is the bookmarks bar. I have tried to right click on all bars I could find and all icons and nowhere did I find "Add Page" or a french equivalent which would require a name and an URL.
  • Sorry. I did find it . The name is completely different. It's called favorites manager. And it's a new favorite you want to create called "send link"
  • Don
    The link button worked great, after I installed Gmail notifier to get it open in gmail instead of Outlook.

    Thank you.

    P.S. Is it possible to have a script that also will copy any highlighted text and paste it into the email?
  • mecheng
    Don, that worked for me to, good suggestion.
  • Grunt101
    rockin' man... the bookmark link is well handy but useless if you don't use Outlook!
    this is a perfect fix! thanks so much
  • rksue
    Worked great. Thanks
  • David
    Thanks so much with the "Send Link" trick for Google Chrome - works very well.
  • Many many thanks :)

    excellent |!!
  • Speak for Many
    THANK YOU IMMENSELY!!!
  • Moshe Hackner
    Thank you very much for posting this.
  • David
    I just feet an irrepressible urge to join the already loud chorus saying: THANK YOU ... this has been my one main quarrel with Chrome (I ditched FF in favor of Chrome, just love it). I know other people talk about lack of RSS support but i'm like meh. This trick/tool/tip or whatever else you'd like to call it is just awesome. Thanks again... now i'm inspired to find a similarly concise solution to global warming :)
  • sumod
    Excellent, works perfectly thanks!
  • ajishgopan
    Thanks for this.

    But when I click on the "Send link" bookmark, the outlook window opens up alright with the subject line. But the body is blank.

    Any clues?

    ajishgopan
  • Brilliant, thanks
  • IleneG
    This is so cool...and it worked first time for this non-geek person!
  • smt121
    works great
  • Tony
    Sweet!
  • Gar
    How would you know how to do that, that's amazing, thanks a bunch
  • Sharon
    It would be helpful if a print preview was provided
    for the Google Chrome: Add a Send Link Button
  • Anthony
    Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
  • That worked the nuts, but how do you add a button on the Bookmarks Bar to simply open Outlook....Al
  • MFortGarry
    AWESOME... I would really like to use Google Chrome as my default browser, but the lack of this function always drove me back to IE or Firefox... how frustrating... and your option to just drag the link to the Bookmarks was incredibly simple...thanks
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