Link Toolbar for Firefox

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March 6, 2004

I can’t believe I missed this Link Toolbar extension all this time. It adds a small site navigation widget in your statusbar that allows you to make use of any <link>s that a webpage may have. Opera has it, so does Mozilla. But this extension probably places it in the best and most logical section of the browser screen - in the statusbar. It doesn’t reduce your viewport like the one for Opera does (it appears as a toolbar). I’ve been wanting something like this ever since I used it on Mozilla.

Here’s a screenshot:

And another with the More widget in action, displaying the alternate RSS format for a website:

Screenshot of Link Toolbar with the More widget in action

Posted by Chu Yeow at March 6, 2004 SGT |

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This is such an essential plugin for me these days that I tend to install it even before things like mousegestures and tab extensions. I can’t stand not having access to that “other versions” menu.

Posted by: Phil Wilson on March 6, 2004 5pm

The number of extensions I install with every FireFox upgrade makes me think they should be ‘packaged’ somehow - perhaps having checkboxes on the installation sites to ‘build and deploy’ the applications you want.

Just like you, I use the link toolbar/link it combo, as well as: