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/>
> 

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