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

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:42:22 +0000

Worked for me. Many thanks

By: xsaminz

xsaminz — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:21:14 +0000

I do this:

javascript:location.href='https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&source=mailto&su='+escape(document.title)+'&body='+escape(location.href);

I dug around in Firefox to get the uri correct and then inserted that instead of the mailto:

By: srcgchs

srcgchs — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:19:38 +0000

Is there a way to alter the send link information so that the GMail service is opened rather than Windows Live Mail?

By: lavallie

lavallie — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:03:14 +0000

Totally cool fix. Thanks much for this. Leads me to believe there could be all types of 3rd party buttons that could be added.

By: mabar207

mabar207 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:06:54 +0000

Same here… I use chrome mailer so when I click on a mailto link it opens up gmail in a new tab. I don't know if these guys are getting in the way of each other, but almost everything's fine with the script except that the body is blank. There is no link in the email… Any idea hoe to fix that?

By: erbarker

erbarker — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:28:36 +0000

Great tip
Thanks
ERB

By: thgolding

thgolding — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:30:54 +0000

Neat. Thanks, Thomas

By: Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:53:54 +0000

Excuse me for bumping this to the top of the comments, but it is fairly important:

Even though the original script is great it should be modified to:
javascript:location.href='mailto:?SUBJECT='+escape(document.title)+'&BODY='+escape(location.href);

The addition of the extra 'escape' function around the document.title ensures that the script works if the webpage's title contains a 'special' javascript character such as &.

You can test this by trying the original script with the webpage http://b2evolution.net/index.php (which fails due to an & in the title). This modified script fixes the problem for this and probably many other webpages.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:05:10 +0000

Fixed it - looking at the original script I saw the 'escape' function being applied to the link. If the escape function is also applied to the title the script then seems to works perfectly.

So if the script is modified to:
javascript:location.href='mailto:?SUBJECT='+escape(document.title)+'&BODY='+escape(location.href);
it should work on all websites.

Thanks again Mike for getting me to look in the right place.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:47:02 +0000

Thanks for that – I have just started on javascript in the last week and your post made me look at the title of the failing website http://b2evolution.net/index.php which contains an '&' (ampersand) character. This causes the rest of this script to fail as '&' is a special character in javascript and would need to be converted to & for the script to work properly.

This implies that any website containing one of javascript's special characters (http://www.w3schools.com/jS/js_special_characte...) will probably cause this script to fail.

Any more experienced (then myself) javascript programmers out there who know how to fix this?