Bookmarks using only CSS. Bookmarklets How bookmarklets differ from extensions

If your bookmarks have suddenly disappeared, don"t worry - you should be able to recover them. This article explains how to get back your bookmarks if they disappeared unexpectedly.

• If you are able to add, delete, and edit your bookmarks but the changes are lost when you restart Firefox, see Can"t add, change or save bookmarks - How to fix.

If you were using the Bookmarks Toolbar for quick access to your favorite bookmarks and the toolbar is now missing, you may have turned off the option to display the Bookmarks Toolbar. To turn it back on:

• Right-click on an empty section of the navigation bar and select Bookmarks Toolbar in the pop-up menu.

• On the menu bar, click View , select Toolbars , and then select Bookmarks Toolbar .

Follow these steps to add a Bookmarks Menu toolbar button that shows all of your bookmarks and folders:

A Bookmarks Menu toolbar button will appear on the toolbar next to the Library button.

To recover bookmarks that were previously saved in the Bookmarks menu or on the Bookmarks toolbar but are now missing, see Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer .

In some cases, Firefox may create a folder on your desktop called "Old Firefox Data". This folder contains a complete backup of your Firefox and can be used to restore bookmarks and other missing information. If you have this folder on your desktop, see Recovering important data from an old profile.

If you have restarted Firefox after installing an add-on and your bookmarks are gone, it"s possible that Firefox did not close properly before restarting itself. To recover your bookmarks, restart your computer.

If you have imported your bookmarks from another browser, they may appear in the Bookmarks menu in a specific folder. To find your imported bookmarks, do the following:

• Depending on the type of browser from which you imported, your bookmarks may appear in a specially named folder in the Bookmarks list.
  • Internet Explorer- Folder name is From Internet Explorer.
  • Opera - Folder name is From Opera .
  • Bookmarks imported from other browsers follow a similar pattern.
• If your source bookmarks were stored in a hierarchy of folders, the folder structure is preserved inside the specially named folder.

If desired, you can move your imported bookmarks to other folders. For more information, see Bookmarks in Firefox.

Your bookmarks are associated with the Firefox you are using. Most Firefox users only have a single, default profile. However, there may be instances when you or Firefox creates a new profile. When this new profile is activated, it contains the default set of bookmarks which may give you the impression that you have lost your personal bookmarks. This troubleshooting sequence helps you to identify if a new profile has been created and how to restore your previous profile.

You can open the Profile Manager to see if another profile exists, which may contain your missing bookmarks, as follows:

Type about:profiles into the Firefox address bar and press the Enter Return key. This will open the About Profiles page.

This page should list at least one profile and could list many. The profile that Firefox is currently using will have this:
This is the profile in use and it cannot be deleted.

If you have another profile listed on this page, it may contain your lost bookmarks. You can click the Launch profile in new browser button to open another Firefox window using that profile. If it contains your missing bookmarks, you can set it as the profile that Firefox will open by default. Click the Set as default profile button for that profile and Firefox will use it automatically the next time you open Firefox.

Allows you to complete tasks with one click. This article explains what bookmarklets are, how to install them, and how to use them.

Bookmarklet is a one-click tool that extends the browser's capabilities by adding features such as changing appearance web pages, searching for selected text in search engines, sending the page to the service automatic translation pages or blog.

• They perform basic tasks with a click.
• They are universal, i.e. They usually work in any browser, not just Firefox, and they also work regardless of platforms, mobile or desktop.
• They are managed like any bookmark. To receive additional information See How to Use Bookmarks to Remember and Organize Your Favorite Sites.

Installing a bookmarklet is simple:

Well, that's it!

The process is the same in other browsers. Usually the hardest part is displaying the bookmarks bar. Well, then you know what to do.

All you need to do is:

Now that you know what bookmarklets are, how to install and use them, check out some cool bookmarklets and start building your own collection!

• Readability removes unnecessary sidebars and enlarges text, making the page easier to read.
• Microsoft Translator Bookmarklet detects the source language of the page text and translates it into your language. This bookmarklet does not work on secure (https://) websites.

You can find more bookmarklets at

Everyone who uses the Internet, in one way or another, stores links to previously viewed pages with interesting information, or, in other words, bookmarks, favorites, favorites - the name depends on the browser used, the imagination of the translator, and, partly, the developer. Once upon a time, in the mid-90s, many of us began to use the Internet using just one available device - a computer at work. By the end of the 90s, quite a large number of people began to dabble in home Internet. There are now two devices - a computer at work and at home. I don’t know about you, but even then I had a question: how can I look at the links at home that I saved at work, or vice versa?

I didn’t resort to any tricks. For example, I made “Work” and “Home” folders in the browser bookmarks tree on my home and work computers. Yes, yes, two folders each in your home and work browser. All bookmarks created on home computer, I placed them in the “Home” folder, but those created at the workplace were placed in the “Work” folder. Then everything happened like this: in the morning, getting ready for work, I exported the “Home” folder and saved the resulting file to a flash drive. When I got to work, I deleted the old “Home” folder in the bookmarks tree of my work browser, and then imported it from a flash drive new version. It's not hard to guess what I was doing when I went home.

Another scenario involved forwarding links via email. I copied the addresses of the resources I was interested in into the text of the letter, sent it to my postal address, for example, Hotmail, then opened the received letter, followed the links, remembered them if he considered it necessary. Later, this script was slightly modernized: instead of sending letters, I created a draft in Gmail, then no changes.

I must say that my choice in the world of browsers, almost from the moment of its appearance, was Opera browser. To be honest, I’m a sinner; when it wasn’t free, I used various methods to bypass the protection. But, if in those distant times, it would have been possible to simply pay for your favorite browser without headaches, I probably would have done so. But then I didn’t have any cards or any other possibilities... Well, I guess I was justified. Let's return to this wonderful browser itself. It did not stand still, constantly developed and acquired additional capabilities.

In version 9.5 appeared new service, called Opera Link. With its advent, it became possible to synchronize various information between browsers on various devices, including Opera mini. One of the components of the synchronized data were bookmarks. Of course, I immediately registered with this service and began using it. And he used it successfully, happily ever after, until... Until Opera announced that it was switching from its Presto engine to another, well-known engine - WebKit.

Maybe some people thought this news was good, but I realized that the world of Opera would never be the same. And indeed, Opera's proprietary "features" began to disappear. In fact, “started” is not quite the right word, everything was much worse - with the release of version 15.0 everything became simply different. Along with other useful features, bookmark synchronization has also disappeared. It was because of this radical change of course that versions of Opera, starting with the fifteenth, never caught on with me. On large, let’s call them that, devices, that is, desktops, laptops and netbooks, I continue to use the latest “native” version - 12.17, especially since, fortunately, Opera Link, as a service, was not closed and continues to function in this old version browser. To be fair, I note that the Opera developers promise to return synchronization to their browser. But when this will happen, and how it will be possible to use it again, at least I don’t know.

But life does not stand still. Now, in addition to “large” devices, I have a certain number of “small” devices - tablets and smartphones, mostly on Android, but also on Windows 8.1. And it’s simply not possible to use old versions of Opera on everyone. Yes, on Acer tablet, with Windows 8.1 on board, when working in finger-based input mode, I use Internet Explorer, and on an Android tablet I often use Chrome. At work, since I spend most of my time programming on a portable virtual machine, I have to be content with FireFox, since Chrome is cut by the corporate proxy, Opera cannot (or maybe I’m just lazy?) be configured so that everything works, and the donkey on XP (namely, under this operating system I run virtual machines) it is not fundamentally updated to new versions. And how can you synchronize bookmarks with such a zoo? But there are about two and a half thousand of them in Opera Link!

In fact, the question asked in the penultimate sentence of the previous paragraph did not arise now and I am not its author. I just happily bypass it, limiting myself to using one browser. Sooner or later, this limit would become too expensive and the issue would require a solution.

What are the ways to solve the described problem - the ability to work with bookmarks from different browsers on a variety of platforms. It’s clear that solutions like “I’ll now use Chrome” are something of a waste of time. Of course, Google is larger than Opera, and Chrome is somewhat more popular than the Norwegian browser, but... There are always these “buts” that are quite difficult to explain and describe.

In general, I decided to find some cloud bookmark storage service. It is desirable that it is not very difficult to use, and, if possible, free. In fact, Opera Link, in essence, is a free cloud service, but I personally found it very inconvenient to use it in this capacity.

After spending some time online researching alternatives, the list of services that met my needs was narrowed down to two. (To be completely honest, up to three, but this third one, pinboard, does not meet the criterion of being free). So, these are Google Bookmarks from Google, naturally, and Xmarks, now from LastPass.

Does everyone remember my weakness for Google products? I have such a disadvantage. I try to overcome it, but to be honest, I am always looking for some loophole to reject competitors. And now, having gone to the Xmarks website, I found fault with the need to install additional software on all computers in order to synchronize bookmarks from browsers. Moreover, in order to take advantage of this opportunity mobile devices, you need to buy a premium subscription. In principle, you can use online access, but why is it better than the product from Google? In general, a reason was found, although I registered in this service in order to later compare the convenience of online access to services.

Now let's talk about Google Bookmarks. This service is in no way associated with the bookmarks that Chrome stores when syncing data between browsers on different devices. In general, this is a rather strange feature, a little illogical, from my point of view. Moreover, in order to import bookmarks into the Google service, we had to go a long way, in which Chrome did not participate in any way. I’ll tell you a little about this path now.

First of all, you need to export your bookmarks from Opera. This is not at all difficult to do, you just need to remember that you need to export it to an HTML file. Why? Because you can import bookmarks into Google Bookmarks only if Google help Toolbar, and at the moment this tool exists up to date only for IE. And to the browser Microsoft bookmarks can be imported from HTML file. It's a pretty good chain, isn't it?

Okay, the file has been received from Opera. On an HP laptop, with Windows 7 on board, I download Google Toolbar and install it. There I launch Internet Explorer and import bookmarks from an HTML file. I check - here they are, my bookmarks, IE carefully created the Imported folder in Favorites and neatly put them there. Next, as the page with help on importing Google Toolbar bookmarks warned me, I had to enable the display of the bookmarks menu in the toolbar settings. So far, everything seems to be smooth and predictable. Did you feel something was wrong? And rightly so! The next step - selecting the bookmarks I want to import - took me significantly longer than expected. And it was because of him that I began to write this post.

So what kind of problem arose in this seemingly ordinary action? It’s simple: I couldn’t find exactly the bookmarks that I imported. I see them perfectly in IE, along with the old Explorer bookmarks, but not in the import selection list!

As an honest programmer, I assumed that there was a small error in IE or in the Google Toolbar, and decided that it could be corrected with simple actions, such as moving imported bookmarks from the Imported folder to the Favorites root or simply reloading Explorer - you never know, Why didn't they pick it up? In total, these, and others invented during the experiments, simple steps, performed many times in different sequences, I probably spent about an hour. But nothing changed - I just didn't see my imported bookmarks in the list for selection.

Then I did what I probably should have done from the very beginning, I started looking at bookmarks using file manager(fortunately, Explorer stores them as files in a special folder file system) more carefully. Have you ever played the game “find 10 differences in the pictures”? Something similar had to be done here too. And I found it!

Burdened with this knowledge, I would not have given this difference any significance if not for the hour before that I spent relentlessly trying to get Google Toolbar to see my imported bookmarks. But this hour changed me and I decided to rename the bookmark files, making their extensions in small letters.

In order to do this, I had to remember the cmd command processor language. Where would we be without Google? Pretty soon I found the team I needed. All that remains is to tweak the example a little and this is the result:

For /R %%d in (.) do (cd %%d && ren *.URL *.url)

If you do batch file(with the cmd extension), then you just need to copy this line into it. If you run from command line, then instead of “%%” you should use “%”. I made a batch file and ran it from the Imported subdirectory of the Favorites directory. All files have been renamed. After that, I again turned to the Google toolbar to start importing bookmarks and this time I was rewarded - all imported bookmarks were in the list for selection. Naturally, I selected everything, after which they were successfully imported into the Google Bookmarks service.

So, one very big point in the program for mastering cloud service storing bookmarks was completed - existing bookmarks were imported successfully. Now all that’s left to do is learn how to use this service.

The first thing you need to do is learn how to add new bookmarks. Actually, it's not difficult. There is a bookmarklet on the Google Bookmarks help page that will solve this problem. The main thing here is to figure out how to add it to the corresponding bar desired browser. For desktop Chrome and Firefox, you can use your mouse to drag the link provided on the specified page to the bookmarks bar. Of course, the panel must first be displayed in this very browser. IN Internet Explorer You can use the right mouse button by clicking on the desired link, and then selecting Add to favorites from the context menu. But I will not repeat here what is very well described, for example,.

Well, adding bookmarks has now become easy: when you are on the desired page, you click on the bookmarklet button and a pop-up window opens on the screen, which indicates the name of the page, its address, and you can add labels and/or notes. Interestingly, if a bookmark has already been created for this page, it will open for editing, which is also quite convenient.

The next task is to find the necessary bookmarks. When you open the page Google service Bookmarks in the browser, a number of bookmarks and a long list of used marks appear on the screen. Displayed bookmarks can be sorted by date, title, and tags. Not simultaneously, but separately. In addition, by clicking on any of the labels, you can limit the displayed bookmarks to only those marked with that label. In addition, it is possible to search for bookmarks by the text included in the title, or by a combination of tags, tags and title text. If you want to find, for example, all bookmarks marked with JavaFX and Threads tags, then in the search bar you need to type something like:

Label:JavaFX label:Threads

If you add some text to this line separated by a space without the label prefix, you can also get a text limit in the title:

Label:JavaFX label:Threads task

In general, the search is also more or less clear. Now we need some time to pass and some experience of use to accumulate. It's also interesting to try it all on mobile devices. With a tablet underneath Windows control 8.1, everything is clear one way or another - I am writing this post on it, and, in the process of writing, I add and look for bookmarks, that is, in IE everything functions quite well.

I haven’t gotten around to an Android tablet yet, but they say it’s the same mobile Chrome The bookmarklet added to the bookmarks toolbar in the desktop browser should be synchronized. And if synchronization is not configured, then you can add a bookmarklet manually by copying the javascript text into the address field of the bookmark being created. In order for the bookmarklet to work, you need to be on the page you want to bookmark, start typing the name of the bookmarklet in the address bar, and select it when it appears in the hint window. This applies to adding new bookmarks. Working with a list of bookmarks and searching for the necessary bookmarks should be no different from working in a browser on a desktop. In theory.

Well, we'll wait and see...

P.S. While I was checking the spelling, adding pictures and doing some other manipulations with the text of this message, I had the opportunity to check the statements associated with mobile version Chrome for Android. I must say that they were confirmed! Everything turned out as promised: I created a bookmarklet manually, and used it to add bookmarks by typing a title. And the rest of the theory was confirmed by practice.

P.P.S. I would like to note one more thing that I discovered while working on this message. We are talking about case-insensitive file names. It turns out that this property can be controlled! In the Windows registry in the branch

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Kernel

There is a variable

ObCaseInsensitive (REG_DWORD)

So, if the value of this variable is set to 0, then the system will begin to respond to the case of letters in the names of file and directory names. Truly, live forever and learn!

Bookmarklets can be a good alternative to browser extensions when solving a number of simple problems. On the one hand, they execute small JavaScript code only when the user requests it. On the other hand, they do not occupy computer memory when the browser is launched, as is the case with browser extensions.

On this page, I decided to collect the bookmarklets I wrote and provide links to articles published on the blog from their detailed description. I think this will be much more convenient and practical.

Key words:

• (formerly YLW) - collection of highlighted keywords in Yandex.
• — collection of highlighted keywords in Google results.
• — determining the density of keywords on the page: Saved copy > View text copy- in Yandex.
• EWS— exports data from the wordstat.yandex.ru service to CSV format
• — a simplified version of the EWS bookmarklet for exporting keywords from the “What were searched for with the word...” table of the Yandex “Word Selection” service (wordstat) into a text list that opens in a new tab or browser window. The list contains only keywords, without frequency, but cleared of plus signs (+).

Numbering:

• (formerly yaNum) - Yandex issue numbering
• (formerly gNum) - numbers search results in search results Google systems

• NEW! ySERP URLs— displays a list of URLs of search results in the results search engine Yandex
• gSERP URLs— displays a list of URLs of search results in Google search results
• — collection of URLs of links divided into groups: internal (local) and external (external).

Pictures:

• - displays a list of thumbnails and URLs of pictures on the current web page
• — displays a list of thumbnails, URLs of images and their sources for issuance Google search from pictures

• — comments and shares for URLs on Google+.

Other:

• — export of all meta-data with name, http-equiv and property from the HEAD section of the web page.
• — export URLs from feedly.
• — checking a web page for elements with a font size of less than 12px in accordance with the new requirements of the Yandex “Vladivostok” algorithm.
• - removing the hide CSS class from elements with the blog-admin CSS class, which is used for editing links on Blogger blogs.
• — displaying a link in the exchange for purchasing links from social networks addMeFast.

According to the rating LiveInternet, the share of browsers based on the Blink engine in RuNet is 65%. This is the same engine that runs on the Chromium multiprocessor architecture. For example: Google Chrome, Yandex.Browser, Amigo Mail.ru, etc. Therefore, my instructions are tailored to them. Although, the principle is the same.

Installation install) bookmarklet works in the same way as adding a link to your browser bookmarks, but let’s look at this in more detail.

Creation create) bookmarklet is the same as creating a bookmark, except that JavaScript code is called instead of the link URL, but let's look at this in more detail.

Use use) bookmarklet occurs in the same way as using any other bookmark, i.e. by clicking on the bookmark in the “Bookmarks Panel” or “Bookmarks Manager”.

The peculiarity of using bookmarklets is that instead of following the URL of the link, the JavaScript code is executed.

Depending on the tasks the bookmarklet solves, execution of its code should occur under appropriate conditions.

For example, if you want to number the Yandex search results using my bookmarklet "", you need to open the search engine results page and only then click the bookmark.

Delete delete) bookmarklet occurs in the same way as deleting any other bookmark.

Sometimes bookmarks.html and others errors system errors HTML may be due to problems in the Windows registry. Several programs can use the bookmarks.html file, but when those programs are uninstalled or modified, sometimes "orphaned" (incorrect) HTML registry entries are left behind.

Basically, this means that while the actual path of the file may have changed, its incorrect former location is still recorded in the Windows registry. When Windows tries to look up these incorrect file references (file locations on your PC), bookmarks.html errors can occur. Additionally, a malware infection may have corrupted registry entries associated with Third-Party Application. Therefore, these corrupted HTML registry entries need to be fixed to fix the problem at the root.

Manually editing the Windows registry to remove invalid bookmarks.html keys is not recommended unless you are a PC service professional. Mistakes made when editing the registry can lead to inoperability of your PC and cause irreparable damage to your operating system. In fact, even one comma placed in the wrong place can prevent your computer from booting!

Because of this risk, we highly recommend using a trusted registry cleaner such as WinThruster (Developed by Microsoft Gold Certified Partner) to scan and repair any bookmarks.html-related registry problems. Using a registry cleaner, you can automate the process of finding corrupted registry entries, missing file references (like the one causing the bookmarks.html error), and broken links within the registry. Before each scan, a backup, which allows you to undo any changes with one click and protects you from possible damage to your computer. The best part is that eliminating registry errors can dramatically improve system speed and performance.

Warning: If you are not experienced user PC, we DO NOT recommend manually editing the Windows registry. Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems and require Windows reinstallation. We do not guarantee that problems resulting from incorrect use of Registry Editor can be corrected. You use Registry Editor at your own risk.

Before manually restoring Windows registry, you need to create a backup by exporting the part of the registry associated with bookmarks.html (for example, Third-Party Application):

The following steps for manually editing the registry will not be described in this article, as they are likely to damage your system. If you would like more information about editing the registry manually, please check out the links below.