A bookmarklet I’ve developed and use in other browsers does not work in Chrome. More specifically, I’ve added it to the Chrome Bookmarks Bar, and it will not fire on Chrome’s default home screen, regardless of whether I click it on the Bookmarks Bar, or in the drop down Bookmarks menu. Yet, when I use it when Chrome is on any other page, it works just fine. Here is the redacted bookmarklet:
javascript:window.location.href="http://part.of."+prompt("Website:")+".the.web.site.com";
Simple, right? Yet, why doesn’t this work within Chrome? Safari, even when it’s on its Top Sites “meta page” responds to this bookmarklet without issue.
Looks like it’s a deliberate security feature of Chrome, according to this posting:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=98871#c2