Firefox Extension: Linkification
One of the things that I liked so much about the Opera browser was that you were able to highlight a text link and right-click “Go to URL”. It saved the time of the old copy/paste. Then one day I found a Firefox Extension that allowed you to turn text links into real clickable links. My dreams had come true.
The reason why this was such an issue for me is that I tend to read a lot, and many times articles won’t directly link to a page because they are stingy about passing their PR link juice to another website. Especially you SEO website dorks. Certainly a good site owner who is stingy like this would just use the rel="nofollow" tag on their links, but alas they are lazy apparently. Anyways, there are quite a few message boards that don’t have the option to use links. So this firefox plugin is quite useful.
Linification
Linkification is a Firefox plugin as I described that would turn a link like this: www.jimimorrisonshead.com into a link like this www.jimimorrisonshead.com. If you had linkification on right now, both of those links would be clickable like this link for CAT5e is.
You can directly download the Linkification Add On right now, or go to the actual Linkification info page.
Once installed you will see a small icon on the lower status bar of your browser, or wherever you have it. The circular icon with the “L” in it has a few functions if you right-click on it. The first is that you can blacklist a site from getting Linkified. If you have a site that maybe you do programming on, it is rather bothersome to have links in your code linkified, so it is nice to be able to blacklist that site and not have to worry about it every time. This is a permanent solution unlike the other option available there. You can simply just turn of the links on a page that have been linkified as well in that menu. Two very handy tools that you will find useful once you start to use this Firefox extension.
The other is the options menu which has far too many features to go in depth with here. Just browse around the options and see the various features it has. A couple of note is that you can turn off auto-linkification, allow text links to be visited simply by double clicking on them with out actually having them linkified and even force the links to open in new tabs or windows. More advanced options are available as well and can be reviewed in the help sections.
Something else you may come a crossed is that people tend to link to images on sites like this often, but you have to copy/paste those to see them. It is also kind of a pain for you when you post on sites that have you upload an image and make it a thumbnail. I just want to see it. Take a look at the Text to Image extension for how to always show these images that are only a link as well.
Visit my Firefox Extensions pages for more.
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Thanks for posting about that extension. I just added it on to FireFox. That’s cool how that works
I’ve never used that extension but I’m going to definitely try it now. I love Firefox for all the great add-ons,etc. Thanks!
No problem. One of my favorites. Starting to have too many icons on my status bar though. May have to prune a few of the extensions I’m using. Could probably start with the PR/Alexa extension…too bad it helps with Alexa, or it would already be gone