Introduction to Bookmarklets

A smaller alternative to Chrome extensions

Ferenc Almasi
Nov 4 · 4 min read
Picture showing a book with a bookmark
Picture showing a book with a bookmark
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

Recently I wrote about how you can create your own Chrome extensions to improve the throughput of your workflow and I was wondering whether there are more lightweight alternatives to them.

What if we only want to copy / highlight texts, do things that should require no more than 10 lines of code? Can you think of…

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