8 Ways to Open Text as a Link

Turn Text to Links in Firefox One of those pesky things that bug me is when somebody writes a link in that I want to click, but there is no HTML code included to make it into a click-able link. Thankfully several add-ons for Firefox have figured out how to turn URLs and e-mail addresses not marked up as a link into things I can click on.

There are eight add-ons for Firefox that do this job very well. The only problem is that there is not that much difference between them.

Know of a number nine I might have missed? I wouldn’t be surprised. This seems like a very popular idea to do for a Firefox extension for some reason. Since today is my birthday, just consider these eight gems your present from me.

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Tags: addon, firefox, html, links, missing, round-up, text, URL

Posted on October 17, 2008 in Add-ons

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Popein said on October 17, 2008 (permalink)

Well… the easiest is not to install any add-on, just select the text and drag-and-drop it to the tab bar at the end for a new tab with the URL (or to the current tab if you prefer).

coldata said on October 17, 2008 (permalink)

And the best one is:

Linkification

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/190

drmike said on October 17, 2008 (permalink)

EasyDragToGo is my favourite. Throw a highlighted link or text tpo open or seacrh …

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=easydrag

Philipp said on October 17, 2008 (permalink)

I use also Linkification. Without the automatic link converter because I’ve got the feeling that this increases the rendering time. I’ve adjusted the extension so that I just have to _double_ click on the link. That’s it :)
In my opinion easier than selecting an url und doing some rightclicking stuff.

Vincent said on October 17, 2008 (permalink)

I was going to suggest Linkification as well. Happy birthday :)

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