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Asked: 2026-05-10T14:32:20+00:00

I’m thinking that the reason I can’t do this is because it might be

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I’m thinking that the reason I can’t do this is because it might be a huge security hole, but here goes…

I want to have a bookmark on my browser (FF3, preferably) that is only a snippet of javascript code. It would merely construct a URL based on the current date and then do a window.location = on that URL.

I know that I could make a page and keep it on my local machine and just refer to it that way, but I was just wondering if you could bypass that step and actually have the ‘location’ of the bookmark really just be javascript. I could have sworn that this was possible years ago, but I can’t find anything that tells me either way now.

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  1. What you want is a bookmarklet they are easy to create and should work in most major browsers.

    Edit: Stack overflow seems not to allow creating bookmarklets in the context of the site, basically you can create a new bookmark and type the following in the location field

    javascript:window.location='http://www.google.com/search?q='+Date()

    to get a bookmarklet that searches google for the current date.

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