Linkification Firefox Extension for Text Links to Clickable Links

Author: The Troll

Linkification is another of the very useful Firefox extensions for message boards. It works in a very similar way to the Firefox extension Text to Image in that it takes links that only show up as text on boards that don’t allow links and makes them clickable. This feature is very useful as copy/pasting these links is sometimes bothersome when you are on boards such as the ones at Gamefaqs.com where you are often linked to things such as Youtube videos, self assessment quizes, and lol Myspeace pages. It is also quite useful when reading articles on various sites as many times they do not link directly and just post a text that you have to copy and paste instead.

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.

You can Download the Linkification Add on in the link there, or go to the Linkification Add on page directly and get it there.

Filed under: Firefox Extensions