bookmarklets

Browser bookmarklets.

If you don’t know what bookmarklets are, I recommend this introduction.

If you are familiar with bookmarklets but you are not sure how to install one, you can find detailed instructions here.

Bookmarklets are pretty powerwul. In particular they can have significant security impact (see some of the examples below). The good news is that since they are written in JavaScript, it’s pretty easy to review their code. For complete transparency, I show the formatted source code next to each of the bookmarklets below.

Allow copy paste

Description

This bookmarklet reenables copy/paste on all elements in the page (typically a text field or text area).

Bookmarklet

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Source code

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Allow right-click

Description

This bookmarklet reenables the right-click context menu on a page.

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Source code

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Enable all

Description

This bookmarklet reenables every element that is disabled in the page (button, text field, etc.).

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Source code

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Allow save password

Description

This bookmarklet reenables the saving of a password by your browser's password manager.

Note: use with caution. Password managers are great but then need to be protected with an very secure (i.e. long, random and unique) master password.

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Source code

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Show password

Description

This bookmarklet displays the current value of a masked password field. To use the bookmarklet, simply click inside the password field that you want to be able to save, then click on the bookmarklet.

Note: use with caution. Beware of your surroundings when using this bookmarklet or someone unintended could see your password.

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Source code

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To English

Description

Translate the page that you are currently on to English using Google Translate. Of course you can modify this bookmarklet to use any language.

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Source code

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Search site

Description

Use this bookmarklet to do a Google search restricted to pages from the domain that you are currently on.

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Source code

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Submit to Archive.today

Description

Use this bookmarklet to submit the page that you are currently on to Archive.today or search for an existing version in their cache.

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Source code

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Search Internet Archive

Description

Use this bookmarklet to do a Internet Archive search for old versions of the page that you are currently on.

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Source code

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Whois

Description

Do a whois query on the domain that you are currently visiting using whois.domaintools.com.

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Source code

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SSL server test

Description

Run a SSLLabs SSL audit on the server that you are currently on.

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Source code

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View source

Description

This bookmarklet opens a new window to display the source code of the current page. This feature is typically not available on mobile web browsers so this bookmarklet is an way to re-implement this feature using JavaScript.

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Source code

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Strip URL parameters

Description

Use this bookmarklet to remove all the URL parameters of the page that you are currently on.

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Source code

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Go to CVE

Description

This bookmarklet opens a new window to display the selected CVE information.

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Source code

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Amazon - Sort by number of reviews

Description

This bookmarklet changes the sort order of your current Amazon product search to order the results by descending number of user reviews. I find that using this sort in combination with the "Avg. Customer Review" filter greatly improves my searches.

Note: for some reason this sort does not work until you limit your search to a "department" of the Amazon online store.

Here is a link demonstrating the result for USB cables: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=usb+cable&i=electronics&s=review-count-rank

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Source code

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Google Maps to SunCalc.org

Description

Use this bookmarklet to convert the currently opened Google Maps page to SunCalc.org.

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Source code

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