A Firefox javascript bookmarking problem

javascript firefox bookmarks
Michiel picture Michiel · Sep 20, 2008 · Viewed 9.3k times · Source

I'm using the following JavaScript code:

<script language="JavaScript1.2" type="text/javascript">
 function CreateBookmarkLink(title, url) {
    if (window.sidebar) {
        window.sidebar.addPanel(title, url,"");
    } else if( window.external ) {
        window.external.AddFavorite( url, title); }
    else if(window.opera && window.print) {
        return true; }
 }
</script>

This will create a bookmark for Firefox and IE. But the link for Firefox will show up in the sidepanel of the browser, instead of being displayed in the main screen. I personally find this very annoying and am looking for a better solution. It is of course possible to edit the bookmark manually to have it not show up in the side panel, but that requires extra steps. I just want to be able to have people bookmark a page (that has a lot of GET information in the URL which is used to build a certain scheme) the easy way.

I'm afraid that it might not be possible to have Firefox present the page in the main screen at all (as Googling this subject resulted in practically nothing worth using), but I might have missed something. If anyone has an idea if this is possible, or if there's a workaround, I'd love to hear about it.

Answer

Atul Kushwah picture Atul Kushwah · Jan 31, 2012

For Firefox no need to set any JavaScript for the bookmark an page by script, only an anchor tag with title and rel="sidebar" can do this functionality

<a href="http://www.google.com" title="Google" rel="sidebar">Bookmark This Page</a>

I have tested it on FF9 and its working fine.

When you click on the link, Firefox will open an dialog box New Bookmark and if you wish to not load this bookmark on side bar then un-check Load this bookmark in the sidebar from dialog box.

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