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Linkalert For Firefox Shows What You're Clicking
I was glad to find Linkalert, a handy little Firefox extension that gives you visual feedback about links you hover over. While it's not going to blow you away with advanced functionality the way some addons do, it's a decent way to keep yourself informed about the links you might click.
Park your pointer on a link, and Linkalert will display an icon indicating what the destination contains. It supports office files, email links, rss, zip, pdf, Javascript, new windows, and more. The new window and Javascript alerts alone can keep you out of a lot of trouble.
It'll also present you with a lock when linking to a secure site, and will open the lock icon when you're about to click out of it. Useful!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Tatsuyame said 10:49AM on 8-11-2008
I've been using this extension for a WHILE now, and I love it. Very handy.
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Tired_ said 11:30AM on 8-11-2008
It also leaks memory like crazy on Vista x64. I use 100MB less after 12 hours with Linkalert removed.
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rerunx5 said 8:20PM on 8-11-2008
I use this script which works the same as the extension.
http://userstyles.org/styles/1722
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David Van (Cool Prizes Inc.) said 2:35AM on 8-12-2008
The developer is a FAIL! Atleast have a mirror... Install link does NOT work for shyt!
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earle.allen said 12:17PM on 8-12-2008
get it quick if you want this. it's hosted by Googlepages,soon to be be discontinued. had to move 2 of my own Googlepages
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