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Tutorial: Zemanta bookmarklet for Google Chrome

Posted by jure, under tutorial on June 19th, 2009

Google Chrome is gaining market share and we’re getting more and more requests for details on how to get our Zemanta Google Chrome Bookmarklet to work, as not everyone is familiar with how bookmarklets work.

1. To start, go to http://labs.zemanta.com/bookmarklet/ – and click on the Generate button:

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2. Afterwards, grab the generate link and start dragging it:

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3. Drop it into your Bookmarks bar, on top of Chrome window, just below the address bar.

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4. That’s it. Now Compose a new blog post or email and Click Add Zemanta button.

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There are a few things that you need to be careful about. “Add Zemanta” only works when you’re composing a blog post or email in one of our supported platforms. At the time of writing, these are: Wordpress.com and self-hosted Wordpress.org, Blogger, TypePad, MovableType, LiveJournal, Drupal, Ning, Tumblr, MySpace blogs, dotclear, GMail and new Yahoo! Mail.

Zemanta Bookmarklet works with Chrome 1 and Chrome 2 as well as Safari 4.

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  • Rigel
    FY: On google chrome 3.0.?? Dragging the Add zemanta link to the bookmarks bar doesn't work, and right clicking on it doesn't work either.

    Google chrome simply rejects the javascript completely for adding to bookmarks via integrated methods.

    In order to add the bookmark to your bookmarks bar:

    Right click "Add Zemanta"
    Copy link address

    Right click bookmarks bar
    Create a new bookmark

    Paste the link address into the address field
    Putt "Add Zemanta" in th name field

    What a bugger, huh?
  • zemanta
    Thanks for this detailed instructions on how to workaround Chrome 3 bug.

    Chrome 3 has a bug that prevents bookmarklets from working:
    http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail...

    It looks like it was already fixed and it's going to be part of the next
    dev release.
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