Next to Greasemonkey – the script engine that empowers FireFox and Chrome, there is another very powerful way to enhance your browser:
Bookmarklets.
Bookmarklets are like shortcuts, but they don’t point to a static URL: they add action, usually by some JavaScript.
If the bookmarklet returns a string, then the browser will follow that as a URL.
But the since bookmarklet has access to the current page, it can also perform just a local action.
The cool thing is that most bookmarklets work on almost any popular browser.
These are a few bookmarklets that I use on a regular base, most are from bookmarklets.com: Read the rest of this entry »