Link Alert

Link Alert 0.9, by conlan
released on June 30, 2009

Displays an icon in the tooltip indicating the target of a link.

Highlights links to the following:
  • New Windows
  • Secure Sites
  • Email Links
  • Javascript
  • Word Documents
  • Excel Spreadsheets
  • PDF Files
  • Zip Files
  • Applications
  • Text Files
  • Images
  • and more...

Version Notes

0.9
-Max. version now 3.5.*
-Icons are now placed in a tooltip.
-Removed support for RSS feeds.

Developer Comments

In addition to increase the maximum version to 3.5, the minimum version has been raised to 3.0 in order to take advantage of new features added to Firefox 3.
Because the icons are displayed in a tooltip now, some of the customization options such as background and border have been removed.
Support for detecting RSS feeds was removed because it was found to be too unreliable, as there is no good way of determining if a file is an RSS feed without actually downloading it.

If you wish to test this a extension a page with all supported links is here.

This is my first extension so I have been developing it slowly.

Comments and Bug Reports can be emailed to linkalert@gmail.com.