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   Bookmarklet: Go To Random Link Works on Frames? - No
Description:
Takes you to a random link on whichever webpage you are viewing. Note: This webpage is unusual because almost all the links are bookmarklets! If you test this here you will probably trigger some other bookmarklet, which could be confusing. So we've set up a more typical test page.
  Last updated - Dec. 14, 1998

N4    Bookmarklet: Go To Selected URL (Netscape version) Works on Frames? - No
Description:
Keep this bookmarklet and test it from your Bookmarks. If you have an URL on a webpage which is written out (that is, it says something like "http://www.domain.com...") then you can select that text (by dragging across it) and then this bookmarklet will take you to the URL. This saves the trouble of copying and pasting the URL into the browser's location box. For example, select: http://www.yahoo.com and then the bookmarklet.
  Last updated - Feb. 8, 1999

E4    Bookmarklet: Go To Selected URL (Explorer version) Works on Frames? - No
Description:
Keep this bookmarklet and test it from your Favorites. If you have an URL on a webpage which is written out (that is, it says something like "http://www.domain.com...") then you can select that text (by dragging across it) and then this bookmarklet will take you to the URL. This saves the trouble of copying and pasting the URL into the browser's address box. For example, select: http://www.yahoo.com and then the bookmarklet.
Platform notes: Doesn't work for Explorer on Macintosh.
  Last updated - Feb. 8, 1999

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   Bookmarklet: Duplicate Page Works on Frames? - Yes
Description:
This bookmarklet opens a new window containing a copy of whichever webpage you are viewing. This allows you to surf from the webpage and still quickly return to the copy (you don't have to reload it).
  Last updated - Dec. 14, 1998

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   Bookmarklet: Previous Page in New Window Works on Frames? - Yes
Description:
If you want to back up just for a moment (to check something on a previous page) it's often faster to open the previous page in a new window (so you don't have to reload the current page). This bookmarklet does this little trick.
Note: it actually opens the referring page rather than the previous page; if you come from a framed site you will open the frame that contained the link.
  Last updated - Dec. 14, 1998

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   Bookmarklet: Up a Directory Works on Frames? - Yes
Description:
Sometimes a link will lead you to a "Not Found" - the page is gone - but the page isn't really gone, the site owner has just moved it to a different place. This bookmarklet gives you a fast way to search for the page by shortening the URL, so you see progressively shallower parts of the site. For example, repeated use of this bookmarklet would take you to the following URLs:
    http://www.domain.com/directory/page.html
    http://www.domain.com/directory/
    http://www.domain.com/
You may find a reference to the page at a shallower level.
  Last updated - Dec. 14, 1998

N4    Bookmarklets:
            Set In-Page Bookmark
            Go To In-Page Bookmark
Works on Frames? - No
Description:
These allow you to set and go to an "in-page bookmark" - a particular place within a page. Useful when reading long text documents; you can temporarily set your place if you want to scroll away for a moment. To test, click "Set In-Page...", scroll a tiny amount, then click "Go To In-Page...".
Note: The in-page bookmark will be erased when you go to a new page.
  Last updated - Dec. 14, 1998

E4    Bookmarklet: Add Domain to Favorites Works on Frames? - Yes
Description:
Sometimes you don't know that you want to bookmark a site until you've already gone several pages into it, but you would still rather bookmark the main entrance. This bookmarklet allows you to add the current domain to your Favorites (instead of the current page). For example, if you use it now then you'll add the main Bookmarklets.com page to your Favorites instead of this page.
Platform notes: Doesn't work for Explorer on Macintosh or Unix
  Last updated - June 26, 1999

N4    Bookmarklet: Find Any in Page... Works on Frames? - No
Description:
This extends Netscape's "Find in Page..." to allow multiple keywords at the same time. It's useful when you want to find something on a page but aren't sure which search word to use; you can try several without having to repeatedly select "Find in Page...".
  Last updated - Dec. 14, 1998

N4    Bookmarklets:
    Speed Reader (Slow)
    Speed Reader (Medium)
    Speed Reader (Fast)
Works on Frames? - No
Description:
Sets up an "eye pacer" which highlights the spaces between words. May or may not improve onscreen reading speed. This idea was suggested by someone whose name, unfortunately, I have lost.
Note: Press any key to stop. Select the bookmarklet again to start from where you stopped.
Note: May cause jiggling of some page layouts. Fast speeds are hard to stop (press repeatedly). The actual reading rate depends on how fast your machine is and how much memory is available to the browser - a slow speed on one machine may be a fast speed on another.
  Last updated - Jan. 27, 1999

N4    Bookmarklet: Show Occurrences of Word... (Netscape version) Works on Frames? - No
Description:
Similar to Speed Reader above, displays all ocurrences of a word on a page by highlighting one after another at one second intervals. For example, try it on this page with the word "this". Press any key to stop showing occurrences.
  Last updated - Dec. 14, 1998

E4    Bookmarklet: Show Occurrences of Word... (Explorer version) Works on Frames? - No
Description:
Displays all ocurrences of a word on a page by highlighting each one with a yellow background, also alerting the number of occurrences. For example, try it on this page with the word "this". After keeping the bookmarklet you can also select any word on the page by dragging across it - when the bookmarklet is triggered all occurrences of that word will be highlighted.
Platform notes: Doesn't work for Explorer on Macintosh or Unix
Created by Laurent Denoue Last updated - Feb. 8, 1999

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   Bookmarklet: Go To First Page in Window Works on Frames? - Yes
Description:
Takes you back to the first page in the current window. Has the same effect as selecting the item at the bottom of the Netscape Go menu.
  Last updated - Dec. 14, 1998

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   Bookmarklet: Go To Previous Page in Website Works on Frames? - Yes
Description:
Takes you back to the previous page within the current website (or rather, domain), skipping over any history from other websites. This becomes useful when you are multi-window surfing and want to drag links from different websites into the same window (the browser Back button will only take you to the previous page, which may have come from a different website.)
  Last updated - Dec. 14, 1998

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   Bookmarklet: Back All Frames to Beginning Works on Frames? - Yes
Description:
For a framed window, takes every frame back to its first page (the page you saw when you first arrived at the framed document.). Has the same effect on the frames as hitting the Back button a whole bunch of times. This page is not framed, so we have set up a test page.
Note: On some platforms this can give erratic results for Netscape 3.
  Last updated - Dec. 14, 1998

N4    Bookmarklets:
            Back
            Forward
            Reload
            Home
            Find
            Stop
Works on Frames? - Yes
Description:
These bookmarklets have the same effect as the buttons in Netscape's navigation toolbar. Windows and Unix users (and Mac 4.5) can drag these bookmarklets to their Netscape personal toolbar. This allows you to customize the buttons that are present; put the buttons you really use in your personal toolbar and hide the navigation toolbar.

Platform notes: Reload should also work for other browsers (Netscape 3, Explorer 4)
  Last updated - Dec. 14, 1998
Back, Forward - Apr. 1, 1999

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   Bookmarklets:
            Back2
            Back3
Works on Frames? - Yes
Description:
These have the same effect as hitting the Back button two or three times. Useful because one often has to go two or more pages into a site before deciding that it isn't worth visiting. Users of the 4.0+ browsers can put these in their personal toolbar or link toolbar for easy access.
Sent in by JB Hiller. Last updated - Feb. 13, 1999

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   Bookmarklets:
            Target Links to New
            Target Links to Special
            Target Links to Top
            Target Links to Self
Works on Frames? - Yes
Description:
These allow you open all the links on a page in a new window without having to repeatedly select this option from your (right-click) menu; an aid for multi-window surfing. Specifically, they control the targeting of the links by sending them to:
  New: each link opens in a different new window.
  Special: every link opens in the same (special) new window.
  Top: used in frames to force the links to open in the full browser window.
  Self: restores the default behavior (links open in the full browser window, or in the same frame.)
On framed pages, these do not change targeting between frames (for example, if an indexing page in a left frame opens links in a right frame then it will continue to do so.) In order to avoid changing the targeting of this page (which could interfere with your ability to test other bookmarklets) these must be tested on the test page.
Note: In frames, all pages must be in the same domain as the containing frame for these to work.
  Last updated - Mar. 27, 1999

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   Bookmarklet: Show robots.txt for this Domain Works on Frames? - Yes
Description:
Takes you to the robots.txt file for whichever site you are visiting. The robots.txt file is used to indicate parts of a site that should not be crawled by search engines. It may or may not show you a "hidden" part of the site, or other interesting information. Not all sites have robots.txt files.
Note: If the site does not have a robots.txt file then you will get a "File not Found" message.
  Last updated - Dec. 14, 1998

N3N4    Bookmarklet: Make Link for Page (Netscape version) Works on Frames? - Yes
Description:
This creates a link for whichever page you are currently viewing. You can then drag the link into your Bookmarks to bookmark the page. The advantage here is that you can name the link (and hence the bookmark) anything you want (normal bookmarking lists the bookmark under the title of the document - which isn't always the most accurate description). If a Netscape 4 user selects some text on the page before selecting this bookmarklet from his Bookmarks then that text will be used as the link name.
  Last updated - Dec. 14, 1998

E4    Bookmarklet: Make Link for Page (Explorer version) Works on Frames? - Yes
Description:
This creates a link for whichever page you are currently viewing. You can then drag the link into your Favorites to bookmark the page. The advantage here is that you can name the link (and hence the Favorite) anything you want (normal bookmarking lists the Favorite under the title of the document - which isn't always the most accurate description). If you select some text on the page before selecting this bookmarklet from your Favorites then that text will be used as the link name.
Platform notes: Text selection doesn't work for Explorer on Macintosh.
  Last updated - Dec. 14, 1998


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