Alt-Text for Links
Displays links’ destination URLs in a tooltip window. Based on Hiroshi Shimoda’s Popup Alt for Images extension. If a link has a title attribute, then the title will override the URL address.
Due to a bug in Mozilla, right now there is no support for multi-line tooltips.
Install Alt-Text for Links 0.3
(Size: 8kb Release Date: October 30th 2005)
Tested on Firebird 0.7, Firefox 0.8 - 1.5b1, Flock developer preview, Mozilla 1.6, 1.7b and Netscape 7.1.
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April 18th, 2005 at 11:01 am
I’m using FireFox 1.0.1 and this extension isn’t working for me–and Shimoda’s doesn’t either. Is there something that could disable these extensions? Help! Thanks!
May 17th, 2005 at 3:59 am
Hi! This extension doesn’t display the tooltip with pictures which act as links. That would be a nice feature. (And the reason I got this extension in the first place.) Thanks for making extensions for Firefox!
May 17th, 2005 at 6:11 pm
Fatjohn, try this one:
http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_popupalt.html.en
May 18th, 2005 at 6:14 pm
Actually I wanted to see the target url as tooltip, not the ALT text. Handy for fullscreen if you want to know if some picture links to a video or audio or picture perhaps. Thanks for the suggestion though. Looks like I misunderstood the purpose of this extension too.
May 18th, 2005 at 7:43 pm
I was looking for an extension like this on the Mozilla site and couldn’t find it, but was delighted to find it here.
It works fine on Firefox 1.0.4, except as noted in a previous comment: it does not work if the “content” of the link is a picture rather than text. Basically, if the cursor turns into a hand, I would like to see where I would go if I clicked the mouse (as in Opera).
Thanks for your work on this extension!
January 29th, 2006 at 1:33 am
I like the new site design!
And like others, hopefully there could be a version which shows the hyperlink content of where the link will take you to. I’ll be sure to check back.
July 16th, 2006 at 3:40 am
The extension effects the tooltips appearance, so when I put cursor on one image then try to put it on another image it doesn’t show the tooltip. but if I remove that extension the tooltips work well
maybe there is somthing else in that extension code effects the tooltips functionality??!!
I’m using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4
thank you for working on this ectension
November 1st, 2006 at 4:33 am
This extension don’t working in Mozilla Firefox 2.0 :(
November 21st, 2006 at 5:17 am
I think I was able to adopt it for Firefox 2.0. At least it works for me :)
Files are here
http://andrey.lebedenko.googlepages.com/home
Enjoy!