> Since I'm a complete newbie, please pardon my cluelessness...  Why would a
> bookmarklet be restricted to Google searches?

Um... My idea is a hack to allow bookmarklets to be stored at google
bookmarks.

> From what I've just read,
> bookmarklets contain URLs, which don't necessarily point to Google.

Bookmarklets start with "javascript:" - they do *not* point to urls.
Google bookmarks only allows (as far as I know) urls. So if you

save bookmarklet
save a bookmark that points to a local file

After you close firefox and open it again the urls are erased and
replaced with about:blank

The hack example...

= The alert is "hidden" inside the google search
= The (unwritten) greasemonkey script sees that search starts with
"javascript:" and converts it to a bookmarklet

============
new idea
The greasemonkey script could allow bookmarklets that point to a local
file.
============

Q: Why would I want gmarks to use bookmarklets?
A: It would be great if I could have all my bookmarklets available at
google bookmarks. If I'm away from home - I can't access any
bookmarklet.

> Can you give a usage example where Firefox's functionality is
> enhanced by such compatibility?

Right now - I use >gt< for a google keyword torrent search

possible searches

gt "name_of_the_film"
gt "name_of_the_film" year
gt intitle:"name_of_the_film"
gt intitle:"name_of_the_film" year
gt intitle:"name_of_the_film" intitle:year
etc.

What I wish I could do - allow gmarks to have a sort of "keyword plus"
search.

Note
I haven't written this yet for ff bookmarks. In fact - I'm not sure if
it's possible to do via ff bookmarks and the address bar.

If gmarks allowed bookmarklets I could type in the bookmarklet name in
quick search and have the bookmarklet allow me to decide which one of
those searches I wanted to do - on the fly.
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