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

Question

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

Answer 1

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:

And then elsewhere on the page:

... 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.