Do you use the Delicious extension for Google Chrome? I am (still, 6 years later) a Delicious-lover, but the Chrome extension has been–admittedly–neglected while the team builds up other elements of the service to modern standards.

The current plugin is a rebuild of the previous plugin that works with current APIs, but still has a few holdovers from the Yahoo days. Unfortunately, one of those holdovers is the enter-to-autocomplete function, which still retains the space separator instead of the recently instated comma separator. Fortunately, it’s a quick fix. Follow the steps below to make enter-to-autocomplete easy again!

Fixing enter-to-autocomplete

1. First you need to find where the extension is located on your computer’s hard drive. Here are some probable paths:
1. Older Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\*UserName*\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions
2. Windows 7: C:\Users\*UserName*\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions
3. Mac OS X: /Users/*UserName*/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions
2. You’ll need to figure out which folder is the Delicious extension next. Take note of the ID: mnaelnkmidnndgikjbiifihgklnocljd

   To check yourself, open your Chrome extensions list by clicking here (careful, it’ll take you to a new window). Find the Delicious extension in that list, and click the arrow to see a few more options appear, as seen in this picture:
   

3. See that ID? That’s the folder you want in your Chrome extensions directory. Open it up, and you’ll see another folder (hopefully called 1.1_0). Open it up, and you should have a list of files that looks something like this:
   
4. Still with me? Great! Now we’re at the good part. Open the file called del-chrome.js in your text editor of choice.
5. Search for the text “delimChar” – there are two instances of it in the file, one at line 838, and another at 1052. It’s pretty easy to guess what delimChar does – it sets the character that delimits the tags! Here’s how it looks now:

   delimChar : " "

   And here’s what you should change it to:

   delimChar : ","

6. Got it? Changed in both places (lines 838 and 1052)? Perfect. Save that file. You’re almost done.
7. Restart Chrome! That’s it! You’re done! Open up a page and enter-to-autocomplete to your heart’s content.

Hopefully Delicious launches an updated extension quickly, but in the meantime this is a quick way to speed up your tagging and bookmarking.

Thanks for stopping by, and let me know if you have questions in the comments below!