Is it possible to get the text from browser location bar *before*navigation (e.g. not location.href)

[Alex Bird]

Hi,
Possibly I am searching for the wrong thing, but my googling has been
futile.

I want to get the contents of the browser (FF) location bar *before* I
have navigated to that location. location.href / window.location have
not been set at this point.

Scenario: I want to be able to paste an address in, and hit a button
to change certain parameters and navigate to the page. I can do this
by popping up a dialogue box and pasting the address in, but that
isn't very clean, and precludes having several modifier bookmarklets.

This could help my debugging speed immensely!

Cheers

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Possibly I am searching for the wrong thing, but my googling has been
futile.

A quite pointless statement without telling what keywords you have used.

I want to get the contents of the browser (FF) location bar *before* I
have navigated to that location. location.href / window.location have
not been set at this point.

You can't. This code would run in the sandbox which, literally, prevents
you from spying on the property.

Scenario: I want to be able to paste an address in, and hit a button
to change certain parameters and navigate to the page. I can do this
by popping up a dialogue box and pasting the address in, but that
isn't very clean, and precludes having several modifier bookmarklets.

I don't follow. As you can paste the address and hit a button, you can type
the keyword of the bookmarklet and paste the address as its parameter. You
can have any number of modifier bookmarklets this way. I currently use
about 100 of them.


HTH

PointedEars

 

[Alex Bird]

A quite pointless statement without telling what keywords you have used.

You're weird.

Thanks for answering the question though,

A.

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

You're weird.

In this place, you are. See http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Thanks for answering the question though,

You're welcome.


PointedEars