Fixing Android's biggest annoyance

As the user of a mobile phone running Google's Android OS, I've been exasperated by the browser's inability to handle bookmarklets — tiny pieces of javascript that you can run inside Web pages to mark up content, share pages, pump up navigation, etc. If you save Web pages to Instapaper or Evernote, or if you use any of several varieties of Lastpass, you're using bookmarklets, which are saved in a browser's favorites or bookmarks folder.

The problem is that when you save a bookmark in any Webkit-derived browser in Android, the system insists on appending "http://" at the beginning. This breaks javascript bookmarklets, some of which I use constantly in my daily work. 

If you're in the same boat, here's how to enable bookmarklets in Android: 

• Get My Bookmarks (free) from the Market
• Export your desktop computer's Chrome, FF or IE bookmarks
• Go to the My Bookmarks site on your desktop computer (http://bit.ly/8WXIDf)
• Upload the generated file
• Load My Bookmarks on your Android device
• Begin importing 
• Choose "One by One"
• Import only the bookmarklets (plus any other bookmarks you want on your device)

The bookmarklets will now be in your Android browser without the http:// prefix.