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Linkification: Firefox add-on of the day
Linkification converts text URLS written on a page into clickable links. But there is much much more packed into this tiny Firefox add-on. This is a great add-on and to help reduce your frustration on forums and comment threads alike. Thanks goes to DLS reader kobewan, who pointed this out to us a while back.With Linkification, you get a new icon on your lower Firefox status bar (a circle with a fancy "L" in the center), this is a quick on/off button. As you surf the net it will change colors, from gray to green or yellow.
- If gray, there were no links converted on your current page.
- If green/yellow, there were text url's that were converted into valid clickable links.
[Thanks kobewan!]
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Subscribe to commentsSW DudeFeb 27th 2007 12:57PM
"It's an end to the routine of "Highlight, copy, CTRL-T, paste, Enter"
With the "Drag de Go" extension, the routine narrows down to Highlight, drag anywhere on page
J. MalenkoFeb 27th 2007 2:21PM
Be careful when enabling this extension on very large (long) pages, it can be very slow and monopolize the CPU.
You can disable/enable it by clicking on its icon.
GeoffFeb 27th 2007 6:06PM
You can also just highlight the text link and drag it to empty space on the tab bar.
The TickFeb 27th 2007 3:15PM
This is so last November.
See
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/11/13/downloaders-anonymous-my-15-essential-firefox-2-0-add-ons/#c2650916
and
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/11/16/downloaders-anonymous-14-more-firefox-essentials/
Ryan SullivanFeb 27th 2007 4:20PM
@J. Malenko
Yes, page load time will increase as the size of the page increases. There is a setting to allow Linkification to work or not depending on the size of the page.
@The Tick
I did catch that post by Jordan Running, but felt that it did not do this add-on justice. There are a lot of options and customizations that are packed away in with this one and felt that some of them needed pointing out. Thanks for keeping me in line though.