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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

2010-07-02: 1.4 @ AMO / local mirror
added fade effect (requires Firefox 4.0 beta 1)
2010-01-18: 1.3
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 / show all

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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)
  5. 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?
  6. lol wrote on January 27, 2010 09:14 PM GMT ():
    not work when coolpriew is enabled?
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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…
  10. me wrote on February 25, 2010 07:40 AM GMT ():
    Excellent addon! Please consider adding customization of tooltip background color and text style.
  11. Neil wrote on March 20, 2010 03:28 AM GMT ():
    Was wondering if you had experienced a problem I am having with this extension. When I scroll it causes all the page that scrolls behind the tool tip to be jittery looking. I really like this Extension but the double scrolling i have to do to solve this is annoying sometimes.
  12. Ronan wrote on April 18, 2010 09:01 PM BST ():
    Viktor (comment #10) had a good point. Any chance to see LTD for Thunderbird as well, so that we can finally get rid of the status bar?
    None of the addins providing this functionality (yours but also URL Tooltip, Tooltip Plus, Smaller Tooltip) are available for Thunderbird.
  13. him wrote on May 22, 2010 03:54 AM BST ():
    What about showing it regardless of the statusbar?
  14. robbie wrote on May 28, 2010 05:25 PM BST ():
    Please consider adding customization of tooltip background color and text font style and color. On some occasions tooltip background color and text font color are almost identical making it hard to read.
  15. Tom wrote on June 1, 2010 10:22 PM BST ():
    Great extension--thanks so much for making it!

    Would be fantastic if a wider width was available; it’s hard to read longer urls.
  16. Alex wrote on June 7, 2010 11:16 PM BST ():
    I gotta say, I loved this extension ever since I found it, especially on my laptop

    I got a couple of suggestions though:
    1- the same many have already suggested: the bar could be a bit wider, to make it easier to read longer urls
    2- what #18 said, if I’m seeing a page with a white background, the bar doesn’t stand out as much, making it harder to recognize it

    All in all, this is already a very good addon that can be made even better
  17. Daniel wrote on July 17, 2010 05:24 PM BST ():
    on win7 with custom themes and have this addon installed, which is great btw, hovering a slightly faster over bookmarks list goes rly rly slow and slows down pc.
  18. AC wrote on July 22, 2010 03:55 PM BST ():
    I love Link Target Dispay. Thank you. But it would be much more helpful if it could display more text. As it stands, a large proportion of the URLs I look at are truncated.
  19. fred wrote on July 27, 2010 01:56 AM BST ():
    Hello,

    Can you fix this problem (not only you) ? thank you very much :-)

    css code broken others add-ons = Some add-ons (Link Target Display 1.3/1.4 & Link Status 1.6 for me because i use use these add-ons) stopped working (url or icone no display) with this version = Redirect Remover 2.6.3/2.6.4 (WinXPHome+SP3 Firefox 3.6.3/---/3.6.8).
  20. User4fggf5465f4rfgr45rr4rr4 wrote on August 21, 2010 03:27 PM BST ():
    hi,

    Perhaps the developer of Redirect Remover (2.6.3/2.6.4) will provide a patch ;-)

    Question asked on this issue here : http://getsatisfaction.com/betterbrowser/topi…ther_css_codes

    !!! Try, developers of add-ons (Link Target Display 1.3/1.4 & Link Status 1.6) affected by this problem to remedy this problem in your own code. Thank you very much :-) !

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