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Step 5 onwards don't work on private tabs for some reason. For private tabs you can do all steps up to 4 and then:

5. Tap on the URL bar

6. Type part of the name of the bookmark you chose until it appears in search (in my case eruda works)

7. Tap the bookmarlet

For this to work you need to have bookmark search enabled in settings: Settings -> Search -> Search bookmarks

Also, there seem to be many sites where the widget doesn't appear, but you can try it at google.com.



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I tried that, but it only gave me the bookmarks.

It's necessary to add that it's searching all bookmarks by title, URL and tags.

Another convinien search shortcut is ^ (for history) and % (for open tabs).


Who's bookmark widget are you using?

Are you using Opera? In this case, try to right-click on it, and select "Add Bookmark"

Ah I'm on FF so I'll have to do the weird bookmark method. A little annoying since it supports other search engines.

For the few I have on FF Android, create the bookmarklet as normal, give it a name, and also give it a "keyword" string.

Then, when you want to execute a bookmarklet on the current page, pull down to get to the URL bar (if it is hidden) and start typing the "keyword" string into the url bar. After a few characters the "suggestions" list should show the bookmarklet entry, when it does, tap on the entry and the bookmarklet will execute on the current page.

I've not been able to find a way to "open" a list of bookmarklets to pick from, other than using keyword search via the URL bar, so this does also require remembering the "keywords" for each to be able to access them.


Press Ctrl-Shift-B to show to bookmarks bar first.

Just found out: the bookmarklet works if you manually copy and paste it into the url bar, but not, if you selct it from the bookmarks list...

Huh. I use bookmarks a lot, too--but I use them via the omnibar. Type the first few letters and I'll find it from there.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.


Firefox makes them pretty easy to use. One key stroke (Ctrl/Cmd-B) displays/hides the bookmarks sidebar where you can search your bookmarks. You can drag the current url to the bookmarks bar to add a new bookmark.

I just had to look up how to do it, but in Firefox you can search bookmarks from the url bar by starting off with a * and a space.

(I'm glad I looked it up, this makes me more inclined to make bookmarks without sorting or tagging them)


Ahaaa, bookmarklet works great. Thanks!

This is my approach too, I've found that it's quite easy to bookmark pages liberally and then I can just locally search my bookmarks from the URL bar.

Bookmarks help.

Yep and also doing a ctrl+b you can search your bookmarks from the sidebar too

> Bookmarks show up ON the homepage

How? For me the closest thing I can get is "recent" bookmarks, but if you didn't bookmark a page recently it shows nothing at all, not even a link to all bookmarks, on the new tab page


Yes, within the bookmark manager, but not on the main search bar... It should be much easier to use in that way... :/

- Bookmark Search , lets you type 'bm' + <space> and search any of your bookmarks in the omnibar

I feel like you’re talking about custom site search that the browser search bar supports and not bookmarklets
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