Virtual Pants

I’ve switched to Chrome as my browser in OS X and iOS. I’m constantly frustrated, however, because my Instapaper “Read Later” bookmarklet never works. It turns out that selecting the bookmarklet from the bookmarks menu doesn’t work, but selecting from the Omnibox does. If you’re having the same problem, check out Jeff Benjamin’s simple how-to over at iDownloadBlog:

To tell the truth, I too thought that bookmarklets, or the lack thereof, was simply a medium sized oversight made by Google; after all, such things are instrumental when it comes to using tools like LastPass, Instapaper, etc.

After some tinkering around, however, I was able to confirm that bookmarklet support is indeed included in the version of Chrome that shipped a few days ago. In fact, using them is a fairly straightforward exercise.