URL Link

URL Link is a small Firefox and ThunderBird extension that allows you to select a non-URL in a mail/news message or web-page, and open it in a browser window.For emails, it reconnects links in emails which have been broken across several lines, and also replaces spaces with the URL character code %20 so that you may follow emailed network 'file:' links (which it auto-detects from Windows X: or servdir references).For web pages, it also allows you to select textual links/URLs in web pages or edit boxes, and follow them as if they were real links. It will always let you follow links and also analyses mailto: links.It analyses 'mailto:' links (converts, e.g., mailto:someone@somesite.com to http://www.somesite.com) and can also 'follow' javascript: links that would otherwise generate a pop-up (e.g., http://www.kelkoo.co.uk/).There are currently more translations thank I care to keep listing here (thanks to the guys at http://www.babelzilla.org/)!URL Link has (as of 2.00.0) a preferences dialogue allowing customisation of the 'not a proper URL' sub-menu which converts, e.g., "sometext" to "www.sometext.com", so that locale-specific conversions can be added (like 'www.*.co.uk').Upcoming is a prefs. dialogue for custom search and replace strings (e.g., convert Windows driver letter to some file:///mnt/smb/ path for Linux users).

Supported versions: Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.* ALL Thunderbird 1.5 - 1.5.0.* ALL

Notes / Comments: PLEASE if you have a problem, or wish for a new feature, contact me direct, as I rarely remember to visit this page to check on the comments, so it may take me a while to respond!If you're particularly trusting, fresh versions can occasionally be found on my website (http://www.fnxweb.com/software-mozilla) as it takes a week or so to get new versions reviewed for listing here.

Categories: Miscellaneous, Navigation, Web Annoyances

Install: URL Link

Web-page selection with 'open tab' option:

The URL Link preferences window (v. 2.00.0):