Bookmarklets
What's a Bookmarklet?
If you've been using the Internet for any length of time you know about bookmarks. But you may not be as familiar with bookmarklets. If you want to be a power surfer, though, it'll benefit you to get familiar with them; they can make your browsing, searching, and even site developing a lot easier.
Bookmarklets (also known as favelets) are not plain HTML links like a regular bookmark. Instead they're small bits of JavaScript code that you access from your browser just as you'd access a bookmark. There's a limit to how much JavaScript bookmarklets can contain, but they can still do all kinds of useful things: search, translate, give page information, resize windows, and even more.
Bookmarklets and Browsers
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