Linkalert For Firefox Shows What You're Clicking

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Linkalert For Firefox Shows What You're Clicking

by Lee Mathews Aug 11th 2008

While surfing with Firefox's status bar hidden gives you a little more viewing area, it can cause you grief sometimes. For example, when you think you're about to download a file directly and instead have three pop-up windows shoved in your face.

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!

Tags: addon, addons, extension, extensions, filetypes, firefox, tile types, TileTypes

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Tatsuyame said 10:49AM on 8-11-2008

I've been using this extension for a WHILE now, and I love it. Very handy.

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.

rerunx5 said 8:20PM on 8-11-2008

I use this script which works the same as the extension.
http://userstyles.org/styles/1722

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!

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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