Bookmarklets, history, exported bookmarks, extensions for Chrome & Firefox (2020-08-17)

Source:  http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/dolphin/lesson_from_newtab.htm     sw test
keywords: bookmarklets, recent bookmarks, exported bookmarks, history, add_date, date_updated, hidden in exported bookmarks, extensions     
(Printed copy is about 6-8 pages)

Summary: Interactive tutorial to show some of the things that can be done with bookmarklets in a browser, some features of the Chrome browser, and a collection of the extensions I am using in Chrome.

Author: David McRitchie

You can test out the bookmarklets on this page, a bookmarklet adds "one-click" functionality to your browser.  This page essentially contains most bookmarklet examples from my "(newtab)" page and work I thought would save time composing Evernote note page but Evernote did not include the links with JavaScript code.  You may begin by clicking on “parentips:”, which will list all of the tooltips you mouseover to see as notes within parentheses to right of the associated element.  Bookmarklets are tools -- do not concern yourself with their code, relax and see what they can do.  You can always find additional bookmarklets with Google Searches.  You can drag a single bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar or any bookmark folder.  (Link for importing bookmarks (bml.html) for bookmarklets you see here.) This page has approximately 169/406 and the file has 190/217 bookmarklets within bookmarks.  To install 1) copy file to your drive, 2) import into your browser, 3) move C.BML or BML folder to your toolbar, 4) delete the imported folder you created with these steps.  I added several bookmarklets but one of general interest would be domains, where you have a page with lot of links and want to see where they are but not interested in the complete urls.

NOTE: Bookmarklets can't directly add to the clipboard.  If you want to create HTML links from tabs use an extension such as "TabCopy" (Chrome from extension button).  A much better extension is available in Firefox -- "Copy Selected Tabs to Clipboard" invoked from the Firefox tab context menu [Evernote note]), will pick up %DESCRIPTION% at most sites but not at addons.  Descriptions are not available through any Chrome extension.  For Safari you can try: Tabs to Links" on the Mac App Store or "TabLinks" Safari Extension - BrettTerpstra.com

Sharing -- new dump: cliptext: , enable:paste allow clipboard paste copy:wiki create link for a Wiki (as in my CopyURLplus) copy:sel (just to an alert message box but like CopyURLplus)

Size:  grid: pgdim: resize:help ruler:

Sorting: (#sortntables) SortSelect: (example at right), SortTable: (see Table)
[to Sort Text Lines, see beside #tools, bookmarklets don't sort links, MSWord does]
Statistics (webpage): imagesct: words: (cnt), (more information)

Style (appearance): bml: bmlx: bold: Nofollow: – Readability ctr: Click-to-remove invert: linkify: [Linkify test] lowercase: ns: strike: wrap: grayscale: zap:colors
Style (debugging):  hidivs: borderselements: imagedimensions: embedded: .css OR .js topo: (topo with borders) scripts: (view scripts) stylesheets: (view style) debugCSS XRAY:
Tables: borderstable : showtable: th: Show table headings , tables trows: (see Table example)
Text areas: charcnt: (Check results in the Testing Area below)
Time:  daysleft: (year)
Viewers:  json:viewer (have an extensipn)
YouTube:  ythd (HiRes)

(check zapcolors:)

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Repetitive: 99:, 

Created for this page (WIP):  domains:,  fav:,  favicons:(below/not-working), href#:,  src:, 

Also needed favicons in links exposed changing icon="data:... to <img src="data...

src:test /* src=src.substr(indexOf,'['); */

favicons: (not working)

Checkmarks:

The checkmark bookmarklets would have been great for GMail as the mobile version does not have a global check/uncheck box for the mail search hits, unfortunately GMail uses JavaScript not normal checkboxes, so the two bookmarklets do not work for GMail. 

HREF visible (href: “Bookmarklet” shows link urls, see http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/­ie/bookmarklets.htm#href_visible, Related keywords - href:, parentips:, bml: keywords:, subs:, alt:, and id:) HREF:# (href:# “Bookmarklet” numbers each link from 0, see http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/ie/bookmarklets.htm#href_visible, Related keywords - href:, parentips:, bml: keywords:, subs:, alt:, and id:)

sp - spelling (sp: places browser into Edit mode, where spelling can be checked, you may have to toggle check spelling as well in your options/preferences).  undosp: reverses.

paren tips [-- javascript:(function(){var z=[],N,title,tc,j;function r(N) {if (N.title) z.push(N);var C=N.childNodes,i;for(i=0;i<C.length;++i)r(C[i]);}r(document.body);for (j in z) {N=z[j];title=document.createTextNode('('+N.title+')');tc=document.createElement('span');tc.style.color='green';tc.style.background='#EEECB9';tc.appendChild(title);N.parentNode.insertBefore(tc,N.nextSibling);N.parentNode.insertBefore(document.createTextNode(' '),tc);}})(); --]

HREF visible [-- javascript:(function(){var z=[],N,href,tc,j;function r(N){if(N.href) z.push(N);var C=N.childNodes,i;for(i=0;i<C.length;++i)r(C[i]);}r(document.body);for(j in z){N=z[j]; href=document.createTextNode('%20[--%20'+N.href+'%20--]');tc=document.createElement('span');tc.style.color='green';tc.style.background='#FFEE99';tc.appendChild(href);N.parentNode.insertBefore(tc,N.nextSibling);N.parentNode.insertBefore(document.createTextNode('%20'),tc);}})(); --]

sp - spelling [-- javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true';%20document.designMode='on';%20%20void%

★ Martindale's Calculators,  A Google search on "calculator" displays an online calculator and links to more online calculators.

★ Martindale's Calculators (Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center: contains over 23,850 Calculators & Spreadsheets, over 4,260 Courses, Lectures, Manuals, Handbooks, and thousands of Movies, Videos, Simulations & Animations. Created by over 8,750 very CREATIVE Individuals, Businesses & Tax Supported Entities World Wide.) [-- http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html --],  A Google search on "calculator [-- https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=calculator --]" displays an online calculator and links to more online calculators,

PRE Area, not 
a textbox.
abc def
ghi

[To Parent Directory]

 10/3/2008 10:39 AM         2801 acgnj_20081003.htm
10/27/2014 10:35 AM       379240 bookmarks.html
 3/13/2018 11:36 AM        99524 bookmarks_2018_03_13_ASUS_Chrome.html
12/31/2018  3:45 PM      1191931 bookmarks_2018_12_31_asus2_chrome.html
 5/18/2020  1:38 PM      2069403 bookmarks_2020-05-18-chrome.html
 4/10/2019  2:16 PM      1406961 bookmarks_chrome_rendered.html
 2/28/2018  3:28 PM        21071 dictionary.htm
 2/26/2018 11:00 PM        10182 dictionary.txt
 2/27/2018  1:11 PM         1287 dictionary2.htm
  9/2/2008  4:38 AM         1576 exxonmobile_20080904.htm
  4/6/2011  9:30 AM         3419 firefox.htm
 5/10/2014 11:12 AM       110642 fx3_intro.htm
 7/21/2016  1:38 PM       114837 fx4_intro.htm
10/21/2017  3:07 PM      1394738 k.html
10/27/2014 10:43 AM       536908 k_dolphin.html
 10/5/2008  2:28 PM         3165 k_highlighted.htm
 

• Real-time HTML Editor
• BEST ONLINE HTML EDITOR | Best Free Online WYSIWYG HTML Editor
• HTML cleanup tool & simplifier. For basic & clean HTML 🔧
• HTML corrector (HTML fixing tool). Makes HTML valid 🔧
• Markdown Live Preview syntax check for wikipedia like Markdown
• Accessible Color Palette Evaluator
• How to Configure FileZilla FTP Client: A Step-by-Step Guide
• How to edit Firefox bookmarks with regex in Notepad++ - html
• Inspect Element: How to Temporarily Edit Any Webpage
• Online regex tester and debugger: PHP, PCRE, Python, Golang and JavaScript
• Alphabetize words, a list, and more! Sort in Alphabetical order. (text only)
• Number Each Line – Text Mechanic
• Compare Plain Text - Combined - No Navigation

• Extraction of a Group of Digits and Dashes, from postings by Harlan Grove (for RegEx)
• dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/javascript.txt (for Bookmarklets)

• (newtab) -- personal new tab page has several bookmarklets and tests.  Most of the bookmarklet information was copied to this page from the newtab page will be modified here and eventually a copy of the bookmarklets section will go back to the newtab page.  Firefox, Dolphin and Android were not copied here. (also see Keyword shortcuts(kws.htm))and Android material.
• 001 Tab Capacity Test underscored test page, see where your browser opens new tabs with your settings.
• Links on my Toshiba's bookmarks bar  for Chrome  -- bookmarklets folders(Cpy, K, K(2016-07-18)) http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/lessons/intro/bookmarks_2020-05-18-chrome.html
• Links rendered with favicons, method of rendering  described elsewhere
• Spell Checking ★ in your Browsers and in Evernote   video is about 5 minutes

Adding words to your browsers and to Grammarly dictionaries(word lists), some words I added to Chrome  are in dictionary.txt, use the "sp: (spelling)" bookmarklet then add marked errors to your dictionary.

If you need to remove a word you incorrectly added to Chrome chrome://settings/editDictionary (settings > Advanced > Language > Custom), where you will see your additions and can remove words added in error or add additional words.  But adding words is a lot easier to add when you see a word in error and use the context menu to replace with correct spelling, add to dictionary, or ignore for the time being.

If working on a Mac, check words first with TextEdit app first as many, but not all, apps do use the system dictionary -- How to edit your Mac's dictionary - Macworld UK

1. Adblock Plus - free ad blocker , Block YouTube™ ads, pop-ups & fight malware! (see Ad Blocking extensions above)
2. Adblocker for Youtube™, automatically blocks all ads on YouTube ™, including pre-roll video ads, text & banner ads.
3. Amazon Assistant for Chrome (official extension)
4. BehindTheOverlay , One click to close any overlay on any website. (or Ctrl+Shift+x or Cmd+Shift+x)
5. Bookmark Manager and Viewer, from Star on extensions bar.
6. Bookmark Sidebar  Bad approximation of a sidebar, but it is a toggleable sidebar with all your bookmarks (can run bookmarklets from here, because associated with the active tab).
7. Check My Links    checks for broken links, best I've seen, nothing like it for Firefox, only the 4xx series of errors are serious. See Wikipedia:Link rot and List of HTTP status codes (Wikipedia)
8. Clutter Free - Prevent duplicate tabs (not a problem for me, so not installed) Firefox would intercept with "Switch to tab" choice if you were about to open a page you already had open). ✘ (don't need)
9. Cookie Deleter , delete cookies for site and restart page (optional & recommended).
   Example installing and invoking this extension from address bar, or jigsaw puzzle icon dropdown on address bar here.
10. Copy as Markdown [M] {S}
11. Copyfish 🐟, Free OCR Software, copy text pictured on images or PDF files. Adds to image context menu. (will probably continue to use "Project Naptha" in Chrome rather than Copyfish) {I}
12. CSSViewer   , click the toolbar icon and then hover any element on you want to inspect in current page.
13. Custom JavaScript for Websites 2  , Run custom JavaScript on any website.
14. Don't Close Window With Last Tab  , says in the least intrusive way, but adding a pinned tab as needed is very intrusive.
15. Enable local file links, by default Chrome does not allow switching to or from local files [
16. Enable local file links, by default Chrome prevents links to local files
17. Evernote Web Clipper  , Use the Evernote extension to save things you see on the web into your Evernote account. {M}{I}{L}{S}
18. EXIF Viewer   {I}
19. EXIF Viewer Classic
20. Export links of all extensions  
21. Export Selective Bookmarks Ⓑ, Creates a Bookmarks export file of selected folders and bookmarks, a feature missing in all browsers. (alternate solution: create a new profile then copy and paste folders you want then export from there. This is more straightforward. Click on the extension icon which will bring up all your bookmarks similar to the Bookmarks Manager, place checkmarks next to folders and bookmarks you want to export. ✘ was deactivated by Chrome, reenabled extension.
22. Get Favicon , (unlikely to need or use since it captures large favicons).  Displays the current page's favicon as well as the favicon's URL and dimensions.
23. Go Back With Backspace  , Re-enables the backspace key as a back navigation button (except when writing text). (if not working, use Alt+arrow-left)
24. Google Keep Chrome Extension  ,  (Save to Keep), Save to Google Keep in a single click! {M}{I}{S}
25. Google Similar Pages , Discover webpages similar to the page you're currently browsing.
26. Grammarly for Chrome   (see Identifying Spelling and Grammar errors (above))
27. Hand Tool   (link broken for Chrome store,so may have been withdrawn)
28. History Blocker by Site    (configure options) prevents the logging of specified websites
29. Honey  , Automatically find and apply coupon codes when you shop online!
30. HTML5 Outliner   , Generates a navigable page outline with heading and sectioning elements (try a normal page that has headers (Hn) -- this page started out from Evernote
31. Image Downloader  , Browse and download images on a web page.
32. JSONView  , Validate and view JSON documents {M}
33. Keywords Everywhere - Keyword Tool [K], shows you "related" keywords as well as "people also search for" keywords in widgets on the right hand side of Google & Bing. They also see the YouTube search insights widget, as well as the YouTube Tags widget. They can also see the estimated organic traffic and the top 5000 keywords for all pages on Google. {M}{S}
34. Link to Text Fragment , select text to be highlighted and linked to, then use right-click to create a text link, "Copy link to Selected Text", which is only recognized in Chromium browsers.  The link will take you to the page and highlight the designated words.  Useful to get around the fact that many web authors do not use text-fragments (or identify them, if they do) {S}.
35. New Tabs At End  , Forces new tabs to open at the end of the tab strip.
36. Open in Firefox  Open current page, link, or all tabs in the Firefox browser. {L}
37. Password Alert  , Password Alert helps protect against phishing attacks.
38. Paywall     $$ shows up in Google search as link, regular link is blocked (just a warning)
39. Personal Blocklist by Google (not found in Google playstore)
40. PDF Viewer   , Uses HTML5 to display PDF files directly in the browser.
41. PopUpOFF - Popup and overlay blocker - Chrome Web Store Select level at each site Tried using AdBlock+ to remove but it prevented scrolling --this extension worked on asite next is NYT. Removes and prevents popups, overlays and cookie notifications, other tools do not. Enjoy the original look of the internet. (Also available in Firefox).  Reinstalled do not know what website would not scroll, but fails on technologyreview.com so disabled Javascript with extension.
42. PriceBlink Coupons and Price Comparison  , Finds Coupons and Compares Prices while you shop. Shows savings when you're shopping, otherwise it stays hidden.
43. Project Naptha  , Highlight, copy, edit, and translate text from any image (and PDF) on the web. {I}
44. Recent Bookmarks  , A list of recent bookmarks in descending order, grouped by the day they were added. (see #bmext above) {B}
45. SEO META in 1 CLICK, Displays all meta data and main SEO information. ✘
46. Share Extensions  , Export your favorite Google Chrome™ extensions as BBCode, HTML, Wiki, Markdown or text. Share extensions via Twitter, Google Mail™.
47. Smart Devices     (controls switches via Amazon Echo(Alexa), Google Home Mini.  "Smart Devices" official extension to control your "Smart Home" ✘
48. Spell Checker for Chrome  , Spell Checker extension for Chrome. It's easy to use and fast. This extension supports 12 languages for spell check. (haven't checked it out yet**){S}
49. Tab Count, Displays the count and list of open tabs from current or all windows (configurable) and allows you to select and/or close them.
50. Tab Restore   (I use builtin browser keyboard shortcut, Ctr+T), Tab Restore helps to restore recently closed tabs and window sessions.
51. Tab Sorter , no options, sorts all tabs fro m extension button.
52. TabCloud  , Save and restore window sessions over time and across multiple computers. (how does this differ from synching tabs, which I don't)
53. TabCopy , Quickly copy tabs to the clipboard. {M}(should be Tab, use the icon)
54. Textarea Cache  , Allows to save automatically the content in a text input field.
55. The Camelizer   , Easily view historical pricing data from camelcamelcamel.com.
56. Thesaurus: Synonym 4 Right Click  , Thesaurus: Synonym option added to right click menu (+Urban Dictionary).  {M(tutorial)} {S}
57. TinEye Reverse Image Search   image context menu, Chrome has image search there also.  This is the official TinEye Chrome extension. Find out where an image came from, how it's used, or find higher resolution versions. {I}
58. Toggle JavaScript , turning off JavaScript may get past a paywall or a bad webpage coding if other measures fail.  Don't forget to toggle it back on afterwards.  There could be better extensions for this.
59. uBlacklist tell Google to block future references to domain by clicking on "Block this site", has cancel escape if you accidentally invoke.  Just stops Google from showing, does not stop you from using someone else's link.
60. uBlock - free ad blocker , A fast, effective, and free ad blocker. Uses same filters as ABP, and if you have to turn of ABP to read a site you may very well need to turn this off as well. {M}{I}{S}
61. Ultimate Enable Right [], Neutralizes website's user-hostile behaviors: blocking right click (context menus), text selection, and copy (Ctrl+C).
62. Unlimited VPN & Proxy by ibVPN   , haven't used or know how to use.  VPN & Proxy for Unblocking Restricted Websites ✘
63. Unpartial Truthiness Analyzer (Fake News) , ***was taken down***, try one of these — Chrome Web Store - fake news detector ✘
64. Unpaywall , Legally get full text of scholarly articles as you browse. Such as Universities, not commercial magazines and newspapers.
65. Video Adblocker, installed as a replacement for Video Adblocker for Youtube. Blocks Pre-roll video ads, Text ads, Banner ads. ✘

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    Video Adblocker for Youtube™ Extension ***REMOVED*** try Youtube Adblocker
66. View Image  , Re-implements the Google Images' "View Image" and "Search by Image" buttons.
67. View Image & Download Image for Google Search  , Re-implements the Google Images' "View Image" and "Search by Image" buttons. We also add "Download Image" button. ✘
68. Voice In Voice Typing , Use your voice to type across many different websites
69. Volume Master , increase volume with slider from toolbar button (up to 600%), be careful as you could break your computer's speakers.
70. Web Archives  , View archived and cached versions of web pages on 10+ search engines, such as the Wayback Machine, Archive.is and Google.   archive.org, googlecache. Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 458 billion archived web pages.
71. Web Cache Viewer    
72. WebCache  , Want to view a cached website? With WebCache it takes 1 click to view the Google Cache, Wayback Machine, Archive.is, or Coral CDN! {M}
73. Webmapper  , Constructs a map of the web using the user's browser history. (Heat Map)
74. WhatFont  , identify fonts on web pages.
75. Window Resizer  , Resize the browser window to emulate various screen resolutions. ✘
76. Youtube Adblocker, automatically blocks all ads on YouTube™, including pre-roll video ads, text & banner ads ***not yet on small laptop***