Posted on 01/25/2014 2:17:23 PM PST by FreeAtlanta
Just delete the Bookmark by right clicking it and clicking delete. It isn’t anything more than a link. Nothing gets installed.
The exception is the “Freeper Blocker” bookmarklet will hide various freepers on a post. That one reads and writes a cookie.
Was there a concern that you had with the search bookmark?
thanks,
FRAtl
great! If you have any suggestions or ideas about improving it, let me know.
FRAtl
I wrote a css style for FR that is dark grey and light grey but the links to external webpages are now dark blue and there is a thick red outline to the search box when active.
If you are curious about how the Bookmarklet works or would like to change it yourself, you can also "right click" the Bookmarklet and in Chrome you click edit and in IE you click properties. You then select the URL (Ctrl-A) works when you have the cursor in the url box, and then copy it (CTRL-C).
You then can paste it into notepad, but it will be one long ugly line. I usually take it to a beautifying tool like "Dirty Markup" http://www.dirtymarkup.com/ and paste in in. On "Dirty Markup", you click the javascript button and then clean. This gives you the code in a more readable format.
Copy it back to notepad, make changes, then "minify" it into one line using something like "Online YUI Compressor" http://www.refresh-sf.com/yui/. Take that and either replace the url in the original bookmark, or make a new one.
It is a bit of a process and a little tedious, but anyone can do it.
The good thing about bookmarklets is that the code is easily available for anyone to examine.
You do need to be aware of ones that bring in external .js files. Some of mine use the standard jquery files from googles cdn. You will have that one loaded just by browsing the internet. It is shared by any site that calls it. My "FR Post This" calls a .js file on my server (http://code-happy.bahits.com/js/fr_linkonly.js It is a very complex bookmarklet. The file on my server is used to hold all the sites that have some type of exclusion from posting on Free Republic as well as the selectors for guessing the authors, dates, title, keywords, etc.
A final note, all these scripts will only run one time when you click the bookmarklet on a web page. If the script is used to modify something on a page (hide a freeper post), a refresh blows away the modification and you have to run it again for the same effect.
Let me know if you have any more questions. I am happy to share what I know.
FRAtl
Did you just delete the bookmarks? I can’t think of anything that bookmarklets would do that would cause that issue.
I am curious about the css you wrote. What does it do and how is it used?
Also, have you closed and reopened your browser?
thanks,
FRAtl
I wrote some css styles for FR, if you use Firefox and get the Stylish add-on for it.
I fixed the link problem by adding "body.index-page ul.listing .meta .attrib a"
Not a 100% fix but good enough for now.
I wage war against the internet. When one thing bothers you, it bothers you everywhere.
very interesting
Nicely done!
Freeper Blocker??
Did I influence that??
Already dragged it to my bookmark bar.
lol, I don’t think so. I love our all our fellow freepers, but some like to cut and paste huge posts of the same thing... links and links and links in particular. The freeper blocker can clean up a thread page really quickly.
Please report back with success or failures. It looks like Fire Fox may have an issue. I haven’t used it in years, but I will install this week and test it out.
Do you know why I got a Security Warning?
You are adding a favorite that may not be safe. Do you wish to continue?
bump to the top
That is common in a lot of browsers when saving a bookmark that has javascript.
This bookmark is safe. If you want, you can look at the code by right clicking the page and viewing source. From there search down to the FR Search link. You can see all the script. If you have questions about what any of it does I will be happy to answer.
It is good to be wary. As much as I know about the internet, I have often wanted to just pack up and move to an island without electronics.
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