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Questions tagged [bookmarks]

Bookmarks are a browser storage facility for URLs. Use this tag only for programming-related questions about bookmarks. Questions about using a browser are off-topic on Stack Overflow.

Bookmarks can be used to store URLs to all browser supported URI schemes. Here are the most common:

  • http:
  • https:
  • file:
  • ftp:
  • javascript: (bookmarklets)
  • about:

Here are some browser specific URI schemes:

  • chrome: (Google Chrome)
  • resource: (Mozilla Firefox)
  • jar: (Mozilla Firefox)
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Javascript for "Add to Home Screen" on iPhone?

Is it possible to use Javascript to emulate the Add to Home Screen option in Mobile Safari's bookmark menu? Something similar to IE's window.external.AddFavorite(location.href, document.title); possibly?
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Function as Google Chrome bookmark

Let me first say the problem I have: I need to fill in the same web page a lot of times, and the content that I need to fill in is for the biggest part the same, but is scattered all over the webpage. The solution i was thinking of: I know there is…
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Is it possible to link to a bookmark within a PDF using URL parameters?

When providing a link to a PDF file on a website, is it possible to include information in the URL (request parameters) which will make the PDF browser plugin (if used) jump to a particular bookmark instead of just opening at the…
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Cross-browser bookmark/add to favorites JavaScript

Is there any cross-browser bookmark/add to favorites using JavaScript. Searched for some list but none is working. Can you please suggest any?
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what's the difference between hg tag and hg bookmark?

What's the difference between a tag and a bookmark in Mercurial? I can't seem to find any discussion of how the two differ.
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Configuring Android Web Applications

iPhone web apps have four configuration features available (not including the HTML5 application cache) to configure how web pages behave when you save the web page to the home screen as a bookmark. You can specify the home page icon. You can…
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How to bookmark code in XCode 4?

I couldn't find a way to put a bookmark inside the code in XCode 4. I know about the #pragma mark thing but it's not what I'm looking for. What I need is something that I can put and remove with a mouse click and navigate amongst with next and…
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Mercurial branching and bookmarks

I read some information about named branches and working with bookmarks. Unfortunately I still don't see a difference between them. Is there any? Is there any difference between: hg branch blah hg up blah and hg bookmark blah hg up blah ? Why…
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Add a bookmark that is only javascript, not a URL

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…
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How do I add an "Add to Favorites" button or link on my website?

I'm building a website using Drupal. On the header of each page I want to have a single image (custom designed by me) which would act as a custom "Add to Favorites" button. Clicking on the image should add the website's URL to the user browser's…
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How to navigate to a bookmark in eclipse 3.4.1?

I am able to set bookmarks in a source file, but are there shortcut keys to navigate to a bookmark ? The navigate menu has a goto line. But that is not useful.
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Is there a way to bookmark or link to a section of a page without an anchor?

Is there a way to bookmark or link to an HTML page (which I am not author of) without having an anchor in the HTML code? I want the page to get scrolled down to a particular section when accessed from a bookmark or hyperlink even if there is no…
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Refresh favicon in bookmarks (Firefox)

Few days ago, I've changed the favicon of my website: it works well when I open the website: My website is also in my bookmarks, but it shows the old favicon: I already had a look here, but answers did not solved my problem. The solution is…
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Setting a VIM bookmark

How you can set a bookmark in vim? I want to bookmark some lines and functions. How do you make a bookmark on the code? My code is written in C.
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Save a Stack Overflow post

This is probably won't be the dumbest questions I've ever asked but I found some posts in Stack Overflow that I want to keep as reference and would like to bookmark them to my account. How do I do that?
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