This will walk you through adding a "bookmarklet" to your browser, which will scroll you to the red "read" marker on the Phish.net Forum.
It is written with Google Chrome & Chromium-based desktop browsers (e.g. Brave) in mind, but may also work with contemporaneous browsers such as Firefox. (Not sure how/whether bookmarklets work on mobile browsers...)
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- Check that the Bookmarks bar is visible (e.g. under the URL bar) when you're reading a thread.
- ...if it's not visible, open the browser's Settings > Appearance and look for a "Show bookmarks" option — set the dropdown to "Always". This will add an area underneath the URL bar with buttons for each of the bookmarks in the top/main Bookmarks folder.
- ...then check again on a thread.
- Create a new Bookmark in the bookmarks bar (right-click on bookmark tab & select "New Page"; or open Bookmark Manager & select the top Bookmarks folder before adding new book)
- Name field: Pick something short and/or memorable; this will be the label on the button which you will be clicking. (I use an emoji like 📌 )
- URL field: Copy the whole line of code below, and paste it into the URL bar — and before you save, check to see if the
javascript:at the beginning is there, and if it's not, add it:
javascript:(m=document.getElementsByClassName('thread_progress_marker')?.[0])&&scrollTo({top:m.offsetTop-(innerHeight/2)})...the beginning of the bookmarklet's URL field should look like this:
Now when you are on a Phish.net Forum thread, and you click the button for this new bookmarklet, the scroll position will jump right to the red "last read position" line (if there is one on the page; if not then nothing will happen).
