Improving your web browsing with bookmarklets

I have recently written a few posts on improving your web browsing experience by using Firefox and it’s awesome free add-ons. But there is another free way to improve your web browsing enjoyment, and the best thing about it is that you do not need any specific brand of browser. It works on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Sea Monkey, Konqueror and any other browser that allows javascript.

You don’t need to install anything either - all it requires is adding the link to your bookmarks/favorites.

What I am talking about is bookmarklets. Bookmarklets are free tools that help with repetitive or otherwise impossible tasks in your web browser. They can do a myriad of things, such as changing page and link colours, removing redirects, zapping unwanted items such as Flash or GIF animations, opening pop-up search boxes, forcing links to open in the same window instead of a new one - the options with bookmarklets are endless.

The procedure to use a bookmarklet is very simple. I found a great bunch of free bookmarklets at Jesse’s Bookmarklets Site a couple of years ago, and I use them daily. All you need to do is find a bookmarklet that does a job you require, right-click on it’s link & add it to your favourites/bookmarks. I’ve got a bookmarklets folder on my Firefox toolbar, so when I need to make some changes to a page after it has loaded, I just click on the folder icon & select the bookmarklet I want to run from the drop-down list.

So if you are looking for something to improve your browsing experience, have a look at adding some bookmarklets. They really are a simple, free, browser & operating system independent, way to make some very useful changes to web pages you visit.

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