Quick Cross-Browser jQuery Bookmark Script

bookmark.js

$('a#bookmark').click(function(e){
  e.preventDefault();
  var bookmarkURL = this.href;
  var bookmarkTitle = this.title;
  try {
    if (window.sidebar) { // moz
      window.sidebar.addPanel(bookmarkTitle, bookmarkURL, "");
    } else if (window.external || document.all) { // ie
      window.external.AddFavorite(bookmarkURL, bookmarkTitle);
    } else if (window.opera) { // duh
      $('a#bookmark').attr('href',bookmarkURL);
      $('a#bookmark').attr('title',bookmarkTitle);
      $('a#bookmark').attr('rel','sidebar');
    }
  } catch (err) { // catch all incl webkit
    alert('Sorry. Your browser does not support this bookmark action. Please bookmark this page manually.');
  }
});

if you try this at safari, the operation will fail silently and not alert something. A catch statement catches only exceptions, but there won't be any, because the if statements prevent any.

window.sidebar.addPanel() was removed from firefox as of version 23.

to work for firefox >23 , add rel="sidebar" in your tag.

is it possible to make this unchecked?