Delicious in Google Chrome

I really liked Google Chrome. It is fast and has a clean interface. One thing that was preventing me from switching to it is the lack of support for Delicious, where I keep my Web tags.

While we wait for extension support, there is a way to achieve good enough integration that makes Delicious usable from Chrome.

Tagging pages

To be able to tag pages on Delicious from Chrome we can use a bookmarklet. Instructions:

• Open the Delicious bookmarklets help page.
• Press Control+B to show Chrome’s bookmarks bar.
• Still in the Bookmarklets page, locate the instructions for Safari.
• Drag the two links into your bookmarks bar.

Now, whenever you want to bookmark a page on Delicious, just click on the icon on the bookmarks bar. Remember you can hide and show this bar, so press Control+B when you need the icon and enjoy a clean interface the rest of the time.

Searching pages

You can use Chrome’s Omnibox to search inside your Delicious tags:

• Right-click in the Omnibox and select Edit search engines.
• In the Search Engines dialog press the Add button.
• Fill the form as follows:
  • Name: Delicious
  • Keywork: d
  • URL: http://delicious.com/search?context=userposts&p=%s&lc=1&u=your_user_name
• Press OK to close the form.

Now on your Omnibox you can type “d”, the space bar, and your search term, like this:

d python

And a search page in Delicious will be shown.

Google Bookmarks

You can also integrate Google Bookmarks using the same technique described here.

Conclusion

I agree this is not as great as the Delicious extension for Firefox. But I think it is convenient enough to enable me to try switching to Chrome as my primary browser.