Bookmarklet Key Bindings for Browsers

02 November 2008 ~ View Comments

Bookmarklet Key Bindings for Browsers

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Once Google Chrome was released, I was attracted by it’s speed and agility. I was already tired of FireFox being so bloated with extensions anyway, so the fact that Chrome has none didn’t sway me. During the time I spent with Chrome, I amassed a collection of very useful bookmarklets. Most of them are covered in detail in 21 Bookmarklets to Fire Up Google Chrome.

I wanted to take things a step further, though. I had all the bookmarklets I needed to cause major damage, flooding, and general over-sharing, but I wanted to make it even easier to destroy my personal brand. This led me to create the Bookmarklet Bindings AutoHotKey script. All your favorite bookmarklets juts a key-short or chord away. Oh, and this script works for both FireFox and Chrome.

Bookmarklet Bindings Features

Win-v: paste-and-go
Win-alt-v: paste-and-go in a new tab
Ctrl-left/right: switch tabs in either direction
Ctrl-Alt-t: Twitter this
Ctrl-Alt-r: Tumble this
Ctrl-Alt-m: Gmail this
Ctrl-Alt-f: Share on FriendFeed
Ctrl-Alt-d: Diigo this
Ctrl-Alt-c: Clip this
Ctrl-Alt-p: Ping this
Ctrl-Alt-s: Share this

The script tries not to destroy whatever is currently in your clipboard.

Notes and Customizations

If you don’t like the default key-bindings or you would like to change what’s available, take a look at the source. It begins with a list of variables representing the various bookmarklets. The second section lists the shortcut keys, which you can easily modify.

For instance, the bookmarklet for Delicious is included in the script, but it isn’t used. You could replace Diigo with Delicious by changing the variable name later in the script.

I chose these specific bindings because they gave me the least amount of trouble and conflicts. If you use RoboForm shortcut keys, you may run into some issues. I simply disabled them in the Options dialog.

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Feature requests? Feel free to contact me or simply leave a comment.

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View Comments to “Bookmarklet Key Bindings for Browsers”

ChaCha Fance 2 November 2008 at 5:42 pm Permalink

I like this. You always come up with the most creative scripts!
Rahsheen 2 November 2008 at 5:51 pm Permalink

Thanks, Cha Cha. I try. Hopefully it will be useful to people besides me..LOL
ChaCha Fance 3 November 2008 at 12:42 am Permalink

I like this. You always come up with the most creative scripts!
Rahsheen 3 November 2008 at 12:51 am Permalink

Thanks, Cha Cha. I try. Hopefully it will be useful to people besides me..LOL
Justin Ramirez 24 February 2010 at 11:09 pm Permalink

Hi! Thanks for posting this script for all to use. I'm not sure what to do with it, however. It sounds like exactly what I need (I have a custom URL service and the only way to use it is through a bookmarklet or an extension that doesn't quite accomplish what the bookmarklet does). Since I have my chrome bookmarks bar hidden all the time, I always have to press control-B and then click it… (okay, now I sound lazy…)

Do you know of any resource that would tell me how to run/install this with chrome?

Thanks!
Rahsheen 25 February 2010 at 3:51 pm Permalink

I actually just wrote a post about my solution for this issue. You can bind bookmarklets to shortcut keys now that chrome supports extensions, just follow the directions here: http://sheenonline.biz/2010/02/get-bookmarklets...