Why Use Bookmarklets - A Web surfers FAQ

Bookmarklets are 'smart bookmarks', that perform actions or enhance the website you're visiting with a single click.

Once installed you simply click on the menubar you created while surfing any webpage.

The bookmarklet will trigger to help and prompt you to complete the task that that app performs.

Bookmarklets use usually just a link that your drag to your bookmark bar. Once installed you can click on the menu bar item w

Yes. Bookmarklets are safer than traditional software. They can only affect the page you're visiting and therefore are limited in what they can do.

Bookmarklets generally only run on sites that don't require logis.

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• Modify the way you see someone else's webpage.
  • Extract data from a webpage.
  • Search more quickly, and in ways not possible with a search engine.
  • Navigate in new ways.

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Yes. That’s the big benefit. They works on Windows, Macintosh, Unix etc)

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