my cludge for this is to export/import to Safari which does work so when you call the bookmark in QS it launches Chrome as its set to default, works well for me since I don't update mine very often though !!
A proper plug-in would be good, I am doubly disadvantaged in time and skills sadly ! -ian On 14 Apr 2011, at 16:23, Rob McBroom wrote: > On Apr 14, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Patrick Robertson wrote: > >> Looks like the Chrome Bookmarks are stored in a .json file, which means the >> plugin would just need to open up the file (App >> Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Bookmarks for me) use a .json parser (I use >> JSON Framework in my 1Password plugin) then make them URLs. > > > Notes for the mythical Google Chrome Plug-in developer: > > I was thinking a proper browser plug-in would also provide access to history > and a proxy object referring to “the URL of the page I’m currently looking > at”. Looking at the AppleScript support in Chrome to see if the proxy object > would be possible (I think it would), I noticed some references to “bookmark > item”. > > On the one hand, it might be safer to get a list of bookmarks via > AppleScript, so if the internal format ever changes, it still works. On the > other hand, that only works if Chrome is running, which is not ideal. > Personally, I think it’s worth the risk to go to the JSON file directly. > > Anyone know what happens if you use the service that syncs bookmarks? Things > to check for would be: > > 1. Does the browser still store them locally at all, or does it just rely on > the remote info? > 2. Does it still use “Default”, or does it create a new folder based on your > Google Account? > > Have fun, mythical developer! :) > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.com/> >
