Undress TinyUrl links with Greasemonkey script

by Romeo Wahed Dec 31st 2007

Earlier today we showed you how to enable a preview for TinyUrls by using the 'Enable preview' feature from the TinyUrl website - allowing you to forgo the leap of faith these little links would usually require of you.

Wish there was a more elegant approach to the problem? Well, for Firefox users (and other browsers for which Greasemonkey is available) this has been solved, thanks to a Greasemonkey script that does for TinyUrl links what X-rays did for the world of medicine.

Once you have installed the script, all you have to do is hover over a TinyUrl link to see where it leads. So simple it's beautiful. And although you can always enable the TinyUrl preview option with a browser cookie from the TinyUrl website, it's not nearly as slick or integrated as the TinyUrl Popup Preview script.

So, if you're paranoid of people sneaking you weird links disguised in TinyUrls or simply want to know where that link in a tweet from a Twitter friend points to, the TinyUrl Popup Preview script for Greasemonkey fits the bill.

[via gHacks]

Tags: extension, firefox, greasemonkey, plugin, script, tinyurl

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Chris Gilmer said 3:26PM on 12-31-2007

And those hackers thought they could sneak us links...This is sooo cool! Thanks Romeo!

jccalhoun said 4:08PM on 12-31-2007

I prefer the bookmarklet "embiggen TinyURLs" which you can just click and it will find any tinyurls in the page and change them to the actual url.
http://ghill.customer.netspace.net.au/embiggen/

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