Blogger Addons - Install BlogThis

In the beginning there was BlogThis, and it was good, and right-click BlogThis for Internet Explorer on Windows, and it was great. Then came Internet Explorer 6, seemingly designed to break as many little things as possible, in the most incomprehensible way possible. Right-click BlogThis was one of the broken things, producing a "permission denied" error anywhere except on blogger.com pages. Until Marcus figured out the problem, anybody using IE6 was out of luck.

For reasons beyond the ken of mortal man, the IE programmers decided that a script called from a context menu could no longer get the url of the page where it was called from external.menuArguments.document.location.href, it could only get it from external.menuArguments.location.href. Yeah. You probably didn't need to know that, but now you do. Marcus posted temporary instructions (which are looking more permanent all the time) for a fix that involves saving the script on your computer, and then editing the Windows registry to point the BlogThis menu item at your version of the script. That's fine for those of us who don't mind editing the registry, but because registry editing is a great way to turn your computer into a doorstop, there are a number of people who—quite reasonably—aren't willing to try it. If you are one of them, this page is for you.

Here you can download a Windows installation program that will take care of the file copying and registry editing for you, with the added bonus of offering uninstallation (through the Control Panel's Add or Remove Programs applet).

Requirements: Windows 95 or later, Internet Explorer 5 or later, the ability to click a link.
Instructions: Click the link for blogthissetup.exe, choose "Run" or "Open from current location" (unless you really want to save a copy of the installer for some reason), click the obvious buttons in the installer, and then be sure to close every single Internet Explorer window and start it up again, so that it will read your new registry items. That's it. If you feel like coming back here and testing out your new BlogThis by linking to this page in your blog, that would be sweet, but it's not a requirement.

Install BlogThis