Add to browser favorites/bookmarks from JavaScript but for all browsers (mine doesn't work in Chrome)?

Can anyone help, I am using the following for adding a bookmark to IE and Firefox but its not working in Chrome and I don't get my error msg saying "not supported" either..

Anybody know of a good script to support ALL browsers or at least to come back and tell me its not supported, I have access to jQuery - maybe there is some way to detect the browser

I am currently using this and it works for IE and Firefox but not chrome

if (window.sidebar) { // Mozilla Firefox
    window.sidebar.addPanel(name, url, "");
}
else if (window.external) { // IE
    window.external.AddFavorite(url, name);
}
else if (window.opera && window.print) {
    window.external.AddFavorite(url, name);
}
else {
    alert('not supported');
}

Sorry, but there's no cross-browser way to do this. Your FF example is broken as well: It won't create a regular bookmark, but a bookmark set to be opened in the sidebar. You'd have to use the bookmark-service to create an actual bookmark, but this'll fail due to security restrictions.

After discovering - like Edison! - a bunch of ways this doesn't work, I eventually came across this page that says adding bookmarks via JS is explicitly disabled in Chrome. Unfortunately it does not explain why.

Update: I was asked to expand this answer by another SO user...

My links and buttons for this function all have a class="addbookmark" associated with them. When the user agent is Chrome, I use some jQuery to disable the links and explain why:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/bookmark.js"></script> 
<script> 
    title='A Label for this Bookmark, ie title of this page'; // for example, not really generated this way... 

    $jQuery(document).ready(function(){ 
        // chrome does not permit addToFavorites() function by design 
        if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('chrome') > -1) { 
            $('.addbookmark').attr({ 
                title: 'This function is not available in Google Chrome. Click the star symbol at the end of the address-bar or hit Ctrl-D to create a bookmark.', 
                href: 'javascript:return false' 
            }) 
            .css({opacity: .25});       // dim the button/link 
        } 
    }); 
</script>

And then elsewhere on the page:

 <td rowspan="2" class="noprint" style="width:24px;"> 
     <a class="addbookmark" title="Save a Bookmark for this page" 
        href="javascript:addToFavorites(location.href,title)"> 
        <img style="width:24px; height:24px; padding-top:2px;" src="/images/bookmark.gif"></a> 
 </td>

... which is by no means perfect, but it seems one's options are fairly limited.

The version of jQuery isn't important, and it's up to you whether you want a local copy or hot-link to the google version. bookmark.js is pretty much exactly as per the OP's code:

$ cat /scripts/bookmark.js 
/* simple cross-browser script for adding a bookmark 
    source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/992844/add-to-browser-favourites-bookmarks-from-javascript-but-for-all-browsers-mine-do 
*/ 
function addToFavorites(url, name) { 
    if (window.sidebar) { // Mozilla Firefox 
        window.sidebar.addPanel(name, url, ""); 
    } else if (window.external) { // IE 
        window.external.AddFavorite(url, name); 
    } else if (window.opera && window.print) { 
        window.external.AddFavorite(url, name); 
    } else { 
        alert("Sorry! Your browser doesn't appear to support this function."); 
    } 
}

Hope that's useful.

I just tested this script in:

Win

IE 6.0, IE 7.0, IE 8.0
Firefox 2.0, Firefox 3.6.3
Safari 3.1.2, Safari 3.2.3
Opera 9.00
Google Chrome 8.0

Mac

Firefox 3.6.13
Safari 5.0.1
Opera 11.0

Google Chrome 8.0

/*
* Copyright 2010 by GlamThumbs Team.
*
* How To Use The Script:
* add to your page this code between inside head tags
* <script type="text/javascript" src="ATBookmarkApp.js"></script> 
* add anchor with void href like this: 
* <a href="javascript:void(0)" onClick="return BookmarkApp.addBookmark(this)">bookmark us</a> 
* 
*/

ATBookmarkApp = function () {
    var isIEmac = false; /*@cc_on @if(@_jscript&&!(@_win32||@_win16)&& 
(@_jscript_version<5.5)) isIEmac=true; @end @*/
    var isMSIE = (-[1,]) ? false : true;
    var cjTitle = document.title;
    var cjHref = location.href;

    function hotKeys() {
        var ua = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
        var str = '';
        var isWebkit = (ua.indexOf('webkit') != - 1);
        var isMac = (ua.indexOf('mac') != - 1);

        if (ua.indexOf('konqueror') != - 1) {
            str = 'CTRL + B'; // Konqueror
        } else if (window.home || isWebkit || isIEmac || isMac) {
            str = (isMac ? 'Command/Cmd' : 'CTRL') + ' + D'; // Netscape, Safari, iCab, IE5/Mac
        }
        return ((str) ? 'Press ' + str + ' to bookmark this page.' : str);
    }

    function isIE8() {
        var rv = -1;
        if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer') {
            var ua = navigator.userAgent;
            var re = new RegExp("MSIE ([0-9]{1,}[\.0-9]{0,})");
            if (re.exec(ua) != null) {
                rv = parseFloat(RegExp.$1);
            }
        }
        if (rv > - 1) {
            if (rv >= 8.0) {
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    function addBookmark(a) {
        try {
            if (typeof a == "object" && a.tagName.toLowerCase() == "a") {
                a.style.cursor = 'pointer';
                if ((typeof window.sidebar == "object") && (typeof window.sidebar.addPanel == "function")) {
                    window.sidebar.addPanel(cjTitle, cjHref, ""); // Gecko
                    return false;   
                } else if (isMSIE && typeof window.external == "object") {
                    if (isIE8()) {
                        window.external.AddToFavoritesBar(cjHref, cjTitle); // IE 8                    
                    } else {
                        window.external.AddFavorite(cjHref, cjTitle); // IE <=7
                    }
                    return false;
                } else if (window.opera) {
                    a.href = cjHref;
                    a.title = cjTitle;
                    a.rel = 'sidebar'; // Opera 7+
                    return true;
                } else {
                    alert(hotKeys());
                }
            } else {
                throw "Error occured.\r\nNote, only A tagname is allowed!";
            }
        } catch (err) {
            alert(err);
        }

    }

    return {
        addBookmark : addBookmark
    }
}();

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