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

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:22:24 +0000

Works on some pages, but get a ‘body blank’ message on others and it doesn’t link up.

By: sandiekid70

sandiekid70 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:22:43 +0000

thanks thats is so easy to do and so very helpful.
love it

By: Charuta

Charuta — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:20:15 +0000

This is great! Thanks!!!

By: David

David — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:47:21 +0000

Thank you so much for providing a way to send a link in an email.
This works ok, but anyone I email has to copy and paste the link into their browser as the link is not a hyperlink that they can just click on. Should I have adjusted something to make this happen?
Thanks for your help!

By: Jester

Jester — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:00:56 +0000

I continue to find random success and failure using the original code, Laurie’s “double escape” version and even Carlitos recent suggestion.

I’m back using Laurie’s version and it failed on http://livewellnetwork.com/Motion/7624634
30 minutes ago but just now it worked as expected using Outlook which is my default email client.

Jester

By: Jester

Jester — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:26:01 +0000

I’ve found this works on some sites and not all. It failed on a New York Times article but worked on some wilderness food web sites I just visited. Then while preparing to post my findings I tried to send the link from this site and it failed.

It does not appear that length of URL affects ability to send the link so some other setting must be stepping on this process.

Jester

By: Jester

Jester — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:15:26 +0000

This worked initially but today I find that my default email app, Outlook, now opens but with the following text in the Subject line, &BODY=about:blank

The URL which used to display in the body no longer appears.

I right clicked the “Send Link” entry on the bookmark bar and looked at the contents of the entry via the “edit” option and it is exactly as before.

Playing detective for now.

Jester

By: Carlitos

Carlitos — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:43:52 +0000

There is something crazy going on with “document”. It may not be handling the “pointer” very well.

Nevertheless, to make the link work you can use:

javascript:location.href=’mailto:?SUBJECT=’+document.title+’&BODY=’+location.href;

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:54:23 +0000

I just encountered this problem today as I haven’t been using Chrome very long. Thank you so much for your solution for adding a Send Link button to the Bookmark bar. And particularly for setting it up so I could just drag it rather than trying to correctly enter the code!!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:22:16 +0000

YOU ROCK!