Re: [BUG] Org-protocol bookmarklets in Firefox behaving badly after recent upgrade [9.6.15 (release_9.6.15 @ /usr/share/emacs/29.4/lisp/org/)]

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

Please, reply to the list.

On 12/12/2024 17:34, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 12/12/2024 15:12, Rehan Deen wrote:
>>      javascript:location.href='org-protocol://store-link?'+new
>>      URLSearchParams({url:location.href, title:document.title});
> 
> Try to add "(void)"
> javascript:(void)location.href='org-protocol:...

I hope, you used the full expression instead of ellipsis. I forgot about 
"+new", so it should be with another variant of parenthesis:

     javascript:void(location.href='org-protocol:...)

The idea is to discard a string returned by the assignment operator.

Try to open web developer tools [F12] and switch to console. You might 
notice some error messages.

> However bookmarklets are unsafe, you have to allow *web page* to launch 
> a handler. In the case of an extension this permission may be given to 
> the extension (but sprig/org-capture-extension still use the unsafe way).

You may try
https://github.com/vifon/org-protocol-for-firefox/
that uses another method to launch external protocol handler.

Personally I am interested in extracting as much page metadata as 
possible, so bookmarklets and simple extensions is not an option.

In future, I hope, it is better to avoid org-protocol.el hack with an 
advice and rely on the new `server-eval-args-left' feature.