The most useful bookmarklets for your browser

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-13 00:26

As Wikipedia says, a bookmarklet is a small script that performs various useful functions right in your browser. It looks like a regular link that you can save to your browser bookmarks, and then refer to it at any time if necessary. Usually, "installing a bookmarklet" means simply dragging and dropping a link from a web page onto your browser's bookmark bar. Below you will find a list of the most useful bookmarklets for Chrome, Firefox, Opera and even IE browsers.

We may be interested in using bookmarklets for the following reasons.

Firstly, most often, bookmarklets perform similar or even completely identical functions as "proprietary" extensions of many services, but at the same time they do not burden the browser and do not take up space in RAM. Therefore, if the service you are using offers to choose between a special extension and a bumarklet, then it is better to prefer the latter. And secondly, bookmarklets are universal and can work in any browser, so if the required extension for your program does not yet exist, then you can search for the corresponding bookmarklet.

PageZipper

Some sites divide their articles into parts to increase the number of views, forcing the user to click the Next button each time to continue. The PageZipper bookmarklet is able to "stitch" these pages into one canvas, loading the continuation in the background. It also works great on various forums and search engine pages.

Bitly Bitmarklet

Forwarding to a friend or posting a link somewhere is not difficult at all - you just need to copy the address from the address bar of your browser and paste it where you want. However, some web pages have such a tricky three-story address that it just doesn't fit into any gate. Special services can help to make the link look decent. This bookmarklet allows you to shorten the address of the currently open page with just one click.

Gmail This

If you want to send an e-mail a link to an open page, but the webmaster did not take care of this possibility, then this bookmarklet will come to the rescue. One click and a pop-up window will open a new Gmail letter with a pre-filled subject line, and all you have to do is specify the recipient's address.

AddThis

This bookmarklet allows you to share a web page almost anywhere. The service supports almost all social networks known today, bookmark collectors and content collection systems, including, of course, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Pinterest, Springpad, Diigo and many others.

Clippable

Extensions for cleaning a web page help you to read the text comfortably without being distracted by advertising banners, navigation elements and other unnecessary elements. The Clippable bookmarklet does just that, and is very successful. Using the cursor arrows, you can switch between several formatting styles, and pressing Esc will return the original page view.

Readability

The Readability service, in fact, was the main source from which the popularity of numerous tools for comfortable reading began. Since then, humble R&D has evolved into a powerful commercial service, but its core capabilities can still be accessed for free. Including with the help of a special bookmarklet.

Printliminator

This bookmarklet also serves to clean up a web page from unnecessary elements, but with a completely different purpose. If you need to print a page of the site, but the author did not provide a special version for printing, then the easiest way is to use this tool. With its help, you can delete only the blocks you don't need, leaving the necessary ones, for example, the header with the title of the site. Then, with one click, we send the "corrected" page to print.

Joliprint

The need to save a page in PDF format may arise before you for compact archiving or if you want to read it, for example, on an electronic reader. The Joliprint bookmarklet allows not only converting any page to PDF format, but also gives it a completely "magazine" look, that is, it removes everything unnecessary, divides the text into columns, fits pictures into the template, and so on.

Google translation

There are dozens of different browser extensions on the web that allow you to translate web pages from one language to another. However, it is not at all necessary to install them, you can simply use a special bookmarklet from the Google Translate service. Select the direction of translation and drag the corresponding link to the bookmarks bar.

Bookmaplet

If you need to quickly find an address found on the network on the map, then the Bookmaplet bookmarklet will come to the rescue. You just need to select the address on any page and after clicking on the bookmarklet, a pop-up window with a map will immediately open, where the desired place will be marked.