Displays link targets in a tooltip at the bottom of the browser window if the status bar is hidden. The status bar is hidden automaticall in full-screen mode, and you may hide it permanentally in the View menu.
Could you please make the max width of the tool-tip larger? I find a lot of URLs are getting trimmed when they wouldn’t be if they were in the status bar.
This extension should definitely be part of Firefox core!
Robert R. wrote on December 24, 2009 01:33 AM GMT ():
I love it! To add on to what #2 & 3 say:
- bottom left would be great, since that’s where we are used to seeing URLs.
- Either a larger tooltip, or if it could re-size itself for the length of the URL.
- Please add an option to have it on even if the status bar is NOT hidden. This makes it very useful for those of us who have cluttered up our status bar with so many other extensions.
It would be nice if it was slightly more intrusive. On most pages with light backgrounds (most pages) it doesn’t quite stand out enough for my tastes. Perhaps you could adjust the shadow on the tooltip to be top right rather than bottom right.
Are you just re-using the tooltip widget? Is it possible to style it with -moz-box-shadow?
I’m using the tooltip widget with custom colors. The shadow is controlled by the OS, and -moz-box-shadow can’t replace this directly. For starters, I don’t know how to turn off the native shadow. I guess -moz-window-shadow:none works on OS X, but it doesn’t work elsewhere.
stardust wrote on January 5, 2010 01:41 PM GMT ():
was mich noch daran hindert dieses an sich tolle addon zu verwenden ist, dass ich die statusleiste von chrome gewohnt bin.
sprich: nicht nur links sollten angezeigt werden, sondern auch die statusinfos wenn eine seite lädt etc.
wäre schön diese features in 1.3 zu sehen.
Will Roberts wrote on January 10, 2010 09:18 PM GMT ():
One thing I’ve noticed is that the tooltip will obscure the horizontal scrollbar if it exists. Could it be moved above the scrollbar if present? Otherwise it is fantastic!
Will Roberts wrote on January 12, 2010 12:53 AM GMT ():
Also if the window is slightly offscreen to the left the tooltip is displayed to the bottom right of the window, past the frame edge.
Dao, I just realised that I am a sort of fan of yours - I use the Link Target Display, the Dictionary Switcher (I recommended yesterday that the íltd should work with the Dictionary Switcher but I did not realise then that it was both you), the Locationbar², the Smart Stop/Reload (btw: waiting for the version compatible with FF3.6), and I use the Dictionary Switcher in Thunderbird as well. I just thought that it would also be nice to have something like the LTD for Thunderbird as well, so that we can finally get rid of the status bar. I only have two concerns: I would like to be able to use my Dictionary Switcher and to see how many emails I have in a particular folder. Great work! About a third of all the add-ons I use are from you :-)
Klapanciusz
Awesome! I’ve wanted something like this before Chrome came out, I just didn’t know of such a nice way as the float until I saw it in action. Wanted to try out Firefox 3.6, but this was one of the UI parts that I just love of Chrome. Screen real estate is important, and only Google’s design team seems to understand this.
Hey die Erweiterung ist echt cool. Wäre schon, wenn du ein paar Einstellungen hinzufügen könntest, die der Nutzer selnst machen kann. Z.B. die Verzögerung für den Tooltip selbst einstellen, oder statt nur bei Links den Tooltip auch anzeigen lassen, wenn http Aktivitäten stattfinden, wie “übertragen der Daten…” etc.
This seem to be interfering with using ’find as you type’ to select links. Every other character typed focuses and unfocuses a link. This is not the case using the regular status bar.
Another issue that I’ve found is that the tool tip seems to linger in background windows. That is, if I shift+click a link in one window, and then return to that window (either closing the newly created window or simply clicking the title bar of the original window) the tool tip from the clicked link is still visible until I click somewhere on the page or hover over another link.
Hopefully you can fix these issues, this is so close to exactly what I want…