See also "Roll Your Own Custom Bookmarklets In Firefox, part 2" on LinuxPlanet.

Roll Your Own Custom Bookmarklets In Firefox, part 2
Javascript bookmarklets have been around since the early days of Javascript. They're possible because Firefox and most other modern browsers (except Konqueror) offer the special protocol "javascript:" to let you execute bits of javascript code directly.

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