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Bookmarklets...

I've never used any bookmarklets. Mainly because I assumed that they wouldn't work with Mozilla. But with the improved JavaScript console in Mozilla 0.8.1 it was very easy to identify the problems of a simple existing bookmarklet for Netscape 4 and modify it to work with Mozilla.

So, without further ado, I present a Google bookmarklet for Mozilla: Google.

How do you use the darned thing, I hear you ask? Well, right click on the link, choose "Bookmark this link" from the pop-up menu and place the bookmark in your "Personal Toolbar Folder".

Now, if you click the Google-button in the toolbar, a Window pops up for you to enter words to search for via Google - but if you have selected some text in the webpage and click, a Google search for those words are initiated instead.

The technique (ahem, hack, you say? :-)) has been applied to all kinds of things (whois lookups, validators, bloggers, what-have you).

I still don't know if it's useful, and I don't really know what other buttons I might like, so I'm starting out soft with the Google one.

Here's one for looking up phone-numbers at De Gule Sider in Denmark - Update: This is a new version of the bookmarklet, if you enter a number it looks that up, but if you enter a name it looks the name up: Tlf

You know the tedious routine when a web-address is on a webpage, but they didn't take the small time and effort to make it a real link? You have to select the address, copy it, select the location-widget, clear the old address and paste the new one and then press enter or click... Yawn! Select the address, click Goto - does that sound easier? Here you Goto! (Update: I've updated Goto to put "http://" in front of the selected text if need be).