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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.

Versions

2010-01-18: 1.3 @ AMO / local mirror
changed the delay for showing the tooltip when moving the mouse pointer over a link
2010-01-03: 1.2
styling changed
2009-12-28: 1.1
moved the tooltip to the bottom left corner
2009-12-23: 1.0.1
fixes for Firefox 3.5 and high screen resolutions
2009-12-20: 1.0
initial release

Comments

  1. lendulado wrote on December 23, 2009 11:34 AM GMT ():
    Hi, I have been searching a extension like this for some time, and now here it is, thanks!

    But in my configuration it doesn’t work. I’m looking forward for next releases.
  2. panda wrote on December 23, 2009 02:00 PM GMT ():
    could you add preference option to display tooltip on bottom left?
    thanks.
  3. Mark Deepwell wrote on December 23, 2009 11:08 PM GMT ():
    Thanks Dão, this extension is great!

    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!
  4. 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.
  5. Asa Dotzler wrote on December 29, 2009 10:04 PM GMT ():
    The change to put this in bottom left is great.

    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?
  6. Dao wrote on December 30, 2009 12:37 AM GMT ():
    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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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!
  9. 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.
  10. Viktor wrote on January 18, 2010 01:31 AM GMT ():
    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
  11. Brett wrote on January 21, 2010 08:25 PM GMT ():
    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.
  12. Niek wrote on January 26, 2010 04:15 PM GMT ():
    Thanks for this extension! Really saves some precious space.
    I do have some suggestions for the extension:

    1. Tooltip delay configuration option
    2. Tooltip fade in and out like google’s chrome (feels more subtile)
  13. Unregistered wrote on January 27, 2010 11:44 AM GMT ():
    Outstanding! I’ve been looking for this to give Firefox the “Chrome” feel. Now it’s perfect. Thanks a ton!

    Is it possible to change the white background to black and the text into white?
  14. lol wrote on January 27, 2010 09:14 PM GMT ():
    not work when coolpriew is enabled?
  15. Simon wrote on January 30, 2010 03:17 PM GMT ():
    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.
  16. ow wrote on February 6, 2010 02:08 PM GMT ():
    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.
  17. Jason wrote on February 18, 2010 05:31 PM GMT ():
    I’ve had a similar problem that ow is describing.

    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…
  18. me wrote on February 25, 2010 07:40 AM GMT ():
    Excellent addon! Please consider adding customization of tooltip background color and text style.

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