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LinkChecker 0.6.6

Check webpage links at a glance with simple color coding. Ditch those massive listings of bad links that provide no context and add LinkChecker to your arsenal of web development tools today.

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Instructions for Use

Choose "Check Page Links" in the "Tools" menu, by right-clicking on any webpage, or click the available toolbar button to check all page links

You can also select portions of a page, right-click, then choose "Check Links in Selected"

LinkChecker exclusion options
Tell LinkChecker what not to check

LinkChecker color options
Choose your own LinkChecker highlight colors

Default link color highlight key:
red - broken links
yellow - forwarded, forbidden links
green - good links
gray - skipped links*

* no email links and other web protocols that don't return standard HTTP headers are checked with LinkChecker

Test Page »
Sick LinkChecker on this test page to find out if I've accounted a particular type of link. If you have any examples of links that tripped up LinkChecker, please post the webpage you found it on and any other details below so I can have a look.

Future Features

sidebar with broken link summary list anchored to bad links
link duplication checking/count
options dialog to set timeout, color, skip criteria, right-click menu visibility, and other settings
more detailed or SVG progress pie chart
easy bookmark link checking (currently achieved by finding your bookmarks.html file on your computer, loading it in Firefox, then running LinkChecker -- not exactly ideal, is it?)
abilty to remove or "turn off" LinkChecker colors after check is complete
option time delay each link checked so script not seen as robot
check selected groups of links
link checking progress bar (x of y and %)
adjust link color to be easily visible on highlighted background (thanks Chris!)
HTTP status code added with link TITLE attribute
toolbar button
skipped link color
Localizations added:
- de-DE
- en-US
- fr-FR
- it-IT
- nl-NL
- ru-RU
linked image highlighting
timeout for links that take too long or refuse to load (default 15 sec)
ability to stop LinkChecker in-flight

Known Issues (in order of importance)

only one page, tab, frame can be checked at a time
ability to pause or stop LinkChecker's progress (currently achieved by reloading a page)
image map links are not highlighted
check against use on .shtml pages
//subdomain.domain.tld/ links don't work
linked images may not highlight
checking stops on links that continually try to load
Google Desktop links halt LinkChecker
context menu conflict with Spellbound
skip "news:" and "file:" URLs

Updated 1/24/2010

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4/14/2005 @ 7:09am

Site/Page URL: http://www.slashdot.org/
Link Type: //linux.slashdot.org/

Just found this one this morning and, I can say, I've never seen it used before. Should be an easy fix. I'll be sure to add this type to the test page and get it fixed muy pronto.

by KevinFreitas

4/14/2005 @ 10:01am

thanks, it's great! (i notice the homepage link needs updating, though.)

by Jorn Barger

4/14/2005 @ 11:00am

The leading double slash (//) is legal but I think deprecated. The W3C validator doesn't like it either. Using it defaults to whatever protocol is current (http, https, etc).

This tool seems great. Just curious: why isn't it listed on the Mozilla site?

by Ashley

4/14/2005 @ 11:02am

my broken ftp-links cause a modal alert:
ftp://ftp.trentu.ca/pub/jjoyce/fwake/ascii_texts/Book1.1

you might want a fourth color for needs-password?

4/14/2005 @ 11:36am

Jorn: Thanks, I changed up the "About" screen and made sure the fancy icons are now in the XPI. I had a slightly incorrect version up there but the latest and greatest is now behind the link.

Also, the 530 your FTP address gave me should've turned yellow. I'll investigate using another color for password protected things.

Ashley: Just put this extension up yesterday and extensionsmirror.nl is the fastest to post this sort of thing. I'll be sure to post the info on Mozilla today (although, unless things have changed, it'll probably take them a sweet bit of time to get it up).

Thanks for the comments/feedback. Keep 'em coming! ~ Kevin

4/14/2005 @ 11:51am

It would be nice, in addition to highlighting, if you could also force the foreground (text) color to be a standard. (Blue, whatever). If a website uses a stylesheet to change the colors of hyperlinks to a light color, the text of the links becomes unreadable when the specified link is highlighted.

by Chris

4/14/2005 @ 5:20pm

Extension shows in Tools but not Context Menu. Selecting in Tools menu has no effect.
Safe to assume extension conflict then?

by Ed

4/14/2005 @ 6:23pm

Ed: Potentially. Can you give me the vitals on your FF version as well as any extensions you have installed. Thanks! ~ Kevin

4/14/2005 @ 7:27pm

Running FF 1.0.2. Also have more than 40 extensions. :^) Not sure it would be worth your while to sort that out. Will do some testing to see what I find. Thanks Kevin.

4/14/2005 @ 7:55pm

And the winner is - SpellBound. Extension to check spelling in web forms. Turns out that your extension is working with all of the many (too many) extensions I am using but SpellBound, although it doesn't add an entry to the context menu, blocks your "Check Page Links' option. Thanks Kevin for making this available. Very cool!

4/17/2005 @ 8:16pm

Yeah, I've got SpellBound and the same problem as Ed.

by Brian

4/17/2005 @ 8:32pm

How about an option to check just one link. For example, when you right click on a link, it pops up an option to check that link. It'd sure beat having to wait for the xtension working it's way down a whole page to check just a few links at the bottom.

by jw

4/17/2005 @ 10:15pm

jw: I added that idea to my list. A single link would probably be simple to impliment. It might also be cool to allow checking of links within certain blocks on the page (e.g. <p>, <div>, <table>, etc.). Thanks for the suggestion!

~ Kevin

4/18/2005 @ 2:17am

You might consider using the outline css property to draw hightly visible borders around the links (outline for FF1.1, -moz-outline for FF1.0). I tested on two of my sites, and the background colors weren't so visible. Something like outline:1px solid lime; outline-offset:2px;} outline doesn't take up space, unlike border.
But cool thing otherwise, thanks for that.

by Philippe

4/18/2005 @ 6:34am

Another addition to jw's idea: How about "Check selected links"? That would be really cool.

Also it seems that LinkChecker doesn't recognize links in -Tags (see http://www.amaxa.com/products.html).

Otherwise it's a nice tool, thanks for making it.

by Andres

4/18/2005 @ 6:35am

-Tags should read dl-Tags...

4/18/2005 @ 5:22pm

what a fantastic idea. would like to see to work only on selected links. runs slow here for example:
http://www.filemirrors.com/search.src?type=contains&file=nero&action=Find&=

by w4tch3r

4/18/2005 @ 8:14pm

w4tch3r: it's on the list. Thanks! ~ Kevin

4/19/2005 @ 2:17am

Very cool but one thing. When you copy from another extension please take the time to at least change the id's of the elements used so it doesn't cause a conflict. :P

by Robert Strong

4/19/2005 @ 9:02am

Robert: Conflict solved. Thanks for pointing this out and thanks for Spellbound -- it's a fantastic extension! ~ Kevin

4/19/2005 @ 11:57am

Question from a total non-programmer: does this extension or its technique lend itself to checking bookmarks? "Bookmarks LinkChecker 0.6.8", the only one I know of, gives results via too many confusing icons, imho.

by K

4/19/2005 @ 12:47pm

Right now it doesn't check through bookmarks but it might not be a bad feature to add to the mix. I'll put it on the list and see about making it happen sometime. Bookmarks are little more than links so it wouldn't be too far a stretch to make this extension able to check those out. Thanks! ~ Kevin

4/19/2005 @ 6:52pm

Could you make the context menu item optional, in order to combat the dreaded Captain Context-Menu Bloat and his evil forces?

by Greg K Nicholson

4/20/2005 @ 5:46am

Great extension! A suggestion: skip URLs starting with "news:" (LinkChecker currently highlights them as broken links).

by vinc17

4/22/2005 @ 2:26am

Hi,

there is a problem with local files (links starting with "file:///C:/". They cause link checker to stop checking and all links after that aren't checked. Would be great if it could just skip those links.

4/24/2005 @ 11:15pm

Very useful tool! I have been using it extensively. Suggestion: The page retains its colour coded lick-checks until it is reloaded again. Or an on-off choice in the sub-sub-menu?

by Hari Srinivas

4/25/2005 @ 4:52pm

Just a note to K - you can check your bookmarks now. Your bookmarks are in an HTML file called bookmarks.html. Use windoze explorer to find the file on your hard drive, then click to display it in FF and run linkchecker on it. You can also bookmark your bookmark file for easy access next time.

by Mark

4/27/2005 @ 11:29am

Very nice extension.

I need Properties to switch "check all new sites automatically" on / off. Is this possible?

by fckwfrei

4/30/2005 @ 2:37pm

Just downloaded and installed LinkChecker 0.1.2. Tried it out on your test page: The second one in this batch came up yellow, not green :
Relative Links

* Link to a sub-folder
* We all have our roots (THIS ONE)
* Backing out to another folder
* Stay in the current folder
* Two slashes are better than one (thanks Slashdot

Just thought you might want to know

by Major Payne

5/19/2005 @ 9:03am

For red / green colour blind people, the colour choices are inappropriate. Maybe change the colours, allow colours to be picked by user, put an icon next to the links.

Have you ever though of providing a statusbar/ menubar button?

Fantastic extension. It is great to 'see' the status of the link instead of referring to a log and searching for the link.

by marc

5/19/2005 @ 9:07am

I just noticed this one too. When a page has a background colour similar to the linkchecker colours, well, they are hard to see. The icon idea might be best. What about blinking?

5/19/2005 @ 10:13am

marc: I understand what you're saying about colors... I'd do icons but don't want the contents/layout of the page to shift when something's highlighted. I'll give it some more thought see what I can get going.

Also, I plan to get away from the right-click and status bar options to run my extensions and focus instead on adding buttons the user can place themselves in the toolbars at the top of Firefox. I should have one ready for the next update of Linkchecker (in the next couple weeks, hopefully).

5/20/2005 @ 8:00pm

Pardon if this was mentioned:

Similar to the issues Google Web Accelerator raised few weeks ago, this extension will go through every link and process what's behind it. A link that constitutes an action in a web application, such as "Log Out" will log you behind the scenes.

W3C documents developers not to use hyperlinks for actions that should be POST (although logouts are very acceptable for GET), but there are still plenty of web pages that go against their advice. Be cautious before using this extension on web applications that use hyperlinks for critical actions like delete, etc.

by Mike

5/24/2005 @ 8:46am

This link checker extension seems to be the perfect foundation for a spell checker. Maybe they can be combined. Food for thought.

5/25/2005 @ 7:34am

This is an interesting bug. Once a link has been checked, click on the link. You get to see some of the html.

by Marc Bubel

5/25/2005 @ 8:22am

Marc: Can you give a more specific example or a link to a page you checked where this was an issue? Thanks! ~ Kevin

5/26/2005 @ 5:45am

Kevin: Visit http://www.rwdi-anemos.com/ and allow the link checker complete the check (contact us is last) (only happens when link check is complete). then click on any link and you might see some of the code instead of the page.

5/26/2005 @ 6:16am

Marc: No luck. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Perhaps you could send me a screenshot or two and maybe even a list of other extensions you use -- we could have some kind of conflict going on. pro [a t] kevinfreitas [d o t] net

5/27/2005 @ 8:25am

What a useful tool - thanks! One thought about checking individual links - would it really be worth it? After all, couldn't you just click on the link to see if it works?

by Christian Watson

5/27/2005 @ 8:39am

Christian: It is a bit redundant but it would just be an option. I just prevents a user from leaving the page their assessing links on and from having to open a link in one of those pesky tab thingies! ;)

~ Kevin

6/5/2005 @ 9:00am

I ran the extention on my exported bookmaks file. I have some links that are dead and forward to www.seeq.com. They are not tagged as redirects. The forwarded URL is www.aquaticwildlife.com

Thanks for the extention.

by Joe Huber

6/5/2005 @ 3:41pm

What about updating and re-arranging to fit Deer Park Alpha, so as to be ready for FF 1.1 ?

by Goofy

6/11/2005 @ 7:30am

nothing happens :(

FF 1.0.4, Windows XP Pro

by icewind

6/11/2005 @ 10:36am

icewind: Did you place the LinkChecker button somewhere in your toolbar? If so, what URL did you try to run it on so I can have a look.

Thanks for the feedback! ~ Kevin

6/11/2005 @ 5:12pm

Now I don't need a PHP script for link checking, nice work!

by Allen

6/11/2005 @ 5:43pm

Thanks, Allen. I have a nice update in the works as well so stay tuned... ~ Kevin

6/12/2005 @ 12:17am

I would like to use your link checker for my site, but it seems that it gets caught up about halfway down the first frame of my site--am I doing something wrong? I need a good free link checker for OSX, and ideas?

by Tony

6/29/2005 @ 6:37am

I translated LinkChecker to Dutch (added the nl-NL locale). The XPI may be found at http://members.lycos.nl/kattouw/vertalingen/linkchecker.xpi

by Roan Kattouw

7/11/2005 @ 2:47am

Thumbs up for this usefull extension, Kevin.

Had a look to the list of future features.
When you say "check individual, selected or block level (e.g. , , , etc.) groups of links", does it mean we'll also be able to check validity of links only for the selected texts ?

by Fred

7/11/2005 @ 1:18pm

Fred: That's the idea. I think I may try for something like that instead of doing it one block or area at a time. We'll see what I can do.

7/12/2005 @ 5:42am

Great work. I like the progress bar. Could you please add to the 'future features' an options dialog that does the following:
1. have a customizable alternative colour scheme so pages that use one or more similar colours to the link validator are easy to decode (this page is a good example)
2. allow user to change colours of the colour scheme including no colour (like on good links because I only want to see the problems)
These are what I'd like to see though I can imagine others might like others.
Cheers, Marc

7/13/2005 @ 2:22pm

Good idea(s), Marc. I'll probably wait to setup an options option until Firefox 1.1 hits the mainstream -- mainly because it's /way/ easier to do so in that version. Cheers! ~ Kevin

7/13/2005 @ 2:51pm

I love the extension! I have only one request - Can you make the toolbar icon smaller so it fits in my main toolbar without stretching it vertically? Thanks!

by Zachary

7/13/2005 @ 3:14pm

Zachary: Hmm... It should work as a small or large toolbar button. Can you email me a screenshot of the problem you're seeing to pro /at/ kevinfreitas /dot/ net? Also, it might help to let me know what skins and even other extensions you're using. Cheers! ~ Kevin

7/13/2005 @ 3:50pm

I ran into a couple problems when checking http://www.orlandooutfitters.com (not my site)--I'm getting the code issue Marc reported. When the checking is done, clicking on "Home" (upper left) shows code. Secondarily, when mousing over the menu items at the top after checking is complete, a gray bar comes up over the left side. Is this just me?

by David

7/13/2005 @ 9:57pm

Here are some screenies, with and without LinkChecker in the toolbar, and a list of all installed extensions.

Thanks for the quick reply!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v185/SmileyMe/firefox_linkchecker.jpg

7/15/2005 @ 6:27am

I can't wait until Firefox 1.1, and to see the LinkChecker options! You probably have thought about the following, but just in case... It just hit me that if the users are able to change the colour of the background, we might want to change the colour of the text too.

I see the problem David and I reported (code appears on selecting checked link) is now fixed (for me at least). Thanks.

by marc bubel

7/15/2005 @ 11:59am

Marc,
I did get your example to work before I submitted my previous comment. But no luck with mine--have you tried it?

7/15/2005 @ 12:22pm

David, I tried your link and did not see the problem. I wonder if it is possible to have a three way incompatibility (the site, linkchecker, and some other extension). I have updated the Anemos website so maybe I removed conflicting code. I have also removed a number of extensions. Try disabling all extensions except LinkChecker.

7/15/2005 @ 6:57pm

I tried with a clean profile with only LinkChecker installed. No luck :(.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5

7/18/2005 @ 5:28am

Maybe it will disappear with Firefox 1.5.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

7/18/2005 @ 6:29am

I appreciate all the feedback, guys. I didn't have a change to troubleshoot it this weekend but should next. I still can't even duplicate the problem so, like NASA, I'll just have to be in a holding pattern. Hopefully I can nail down the problem. Cheers! ~ Kevin

7/18/2005 @ 8:50pm

Well, no code problem today with orlando outfitters or anemos...strangest thing. Hopefully it won't return! I am still getting the gray bar thing on orlando, but that is much less concerning. Thanks Kevin for a great extension! Saves a ton of time...

7/19/2005 @ 7:18am

I saw the gray bar thing. It is related to javascript as it only appears if js is enabled. I believe it is in the navigation.

7/21/2005 @ 2:26pm

perhaps add a key-binding so we don't have to use the mouse? :)

7/21/2005 @ 2:27pm

i forgot to distinguish myself from the other David who posted before me...
Ctrl+Shift+L would be my recommendation for keyboard shortcut

by David [G]

7/27/2005 @ 7:27am

The LinkChecker button sometimes disappear from the toobar. I need to disable LinkChecker, restart Firefox, reenable LinkChecker and restart Firefox again.

8/4/2005 @ 1:50am

Hello,
This extension seems interesting but would it be possible to make it evolv to a bookmark link check, that is check all the bookmarks for validity and ask propose a nice interface to remove the dead bookmarks?
This might be considered as another extension but the links checking procedure should be the same.
There use to be an extension call Bookmark links checker, but for all version of firefox. It is not maintained anymore.

So if you have time to do this many people like me would be greatfull

by SeB.fr

8/4/2005 @ 6:38am

SeB.fr: Thanks for your suggestion. Some folks have suggested the same so I'll put it on my list. Cheers! ~ Kevin

8/5/2005 @ 11:55am

Would it be possible so you could set what defines a broken link? Like if the link gets forwarded to www.website.com/brokenlink.html, then it shows it as a broken link.

8/5/2005 @ 12:13pm

Is there a way to use this tool to check out all the links on a website by entering in the homepage of the site rather than page by page? Did I just miss this feature in the documentation?

by Noah Stern

8/5/2005 @ 2:16pm

Chris: not right now but I'll keep that in-mind as I learn more about writing options/preferences interfaces. This also relates to having a black list capability so folks can tell LinkChecker to avoid "Logout" or "Delete" kinds of links.

Noah: There's no way to sick LinkChecker on an entire website "spider style" currently. There are so many tools out there already that do so that I'll probably never get there. I won't rule it out though. One of my next big steps, however, is to have a results summary screen show what links are bad, how many, etc.

8/5/2005 @ 4:59pm

Also came around looking for a replacement for Bookmarks LinkChecker, and this works fine for me checking the bookmarks.html page. I can't wait for the ability to configure the time out, though, my connection is painfully slow. It would be nice to have a quicker way to open bookmarks.html and start checking-- maybe something in the bookmarks menu? Or maybe some kind of integration with http://bookmarkshome.mozdev.org/ which checks your bookmarks every so often and puts text at the top of about:bookmarkshome showing how many/which links are dead.

by Gamma

8/21/2005 @ 9:31am

Please make context menu item optional. My context menu is already bloated with lot of stuff.

by djet

8/21/2005 @ 9:50am

djet: I'm actually probably going to eliminate it altogether. I don't find it particularly useful especially when toolbar buttons can be placed where ever a user wants. Thanks your comment! ~ Kevin

8/24/2005 @ 7:16am

Very good tool!! I used it to check my Bookmarks that way:
Export all Bookmarks with firefox to a bookmarks.hmtl file.
Open this local file in Firefox.
Use Link-Checker to highlight all your links.
It even works to save the new bookmarks file to disk, including the color marks.
wonderful!

by Wolfgang

8/28/2005 @ 12:04pm

Hi,
Awesome little extension, thank you for making it!

I think some of the links on my exported bookmarks file may've caused probs. I tried to e-mail (via Yahoo) the relevant links to pro at this domain, but it bounced back w/permanent error: ...couldn't find mail exchanger/IP address.#5.4.4. A couple of the links were to resources for volunteers at a website; while publically available online, being occasional resources they're on a low-spec server, linking them might give an unexpected traffic surge. :)

Is there another e-mail addy I could try? Thank you.

by R

9/7/2005 @ 7:27am

Really useful, thanks Kevin. Is the source posted anywhere?

by Nic

9/7/2005 @ 7:56am

Nic: It's not posted anywhere but Firefox extension XPI files are just ZIP files. Right-click to save the XPI, rename it to a .ZIP file then unzip and see how this thing is put together. I'm not finished adding features but let me know if you have any suggestions when/if you get into the code. Cheers! ~ Kevin

9/9/2005 @ 1:34pm

Could you make it compatible with Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 please? Version 0.4.1 can't be installed.

9/15/2005 @ 11:35am

I'd like to second vinc17's comment. would love to have a (newer) version that installed on 1.5b1 w/o me having to edit the install.rdf! ;)

excellent tool, btw.

by david gunnells

9/15/2005 @ 11:42am

Does anybody know of an extension where you can check your bookmark links? I want to see if they all are up to date... cheers steven.

by Steven

9/15/2005 @ 9:24pm

vinc and david: I hope to find some time this weekend to get a 1.5 friendly version tested and available. Thanks for the nudge and for your feedback.

Steven: There's no interface for checking bookmarks right now but you can run them on the bookmarks.html file stored on your computer. You can search for it in windows explorer or with Google desktop search. Drag it into Firefox then check away. You can also bookmark your bookmarks file for easy checking in the future. Thanks to Mark above for that idea.

I'll also add it to my list of future features. Cheers! ~ Kevin

9/15/2005 @ 11:27pm

"I'm actually probably going to eliminate it altogether. I don't find it particularly useful especially when toolbar buttons can be placed where ever a user wants. Thanks your comment!"

Aah! Please don't!!
(1)Toolbar buttons are rarely themed and so end up looking silly.
(2) Context menu items and toolbar buttons are usually for things that one does often. Some of us love this extension for what it does when we need it, it's just that we don't need it every day. A menu item is much more out of the way--still accessible, but not something you're either having to stare at all day every day or see every time you right click.
(3)If the user feels that the menu item is too much, there's always the Menu Editor extension-that's pretty much a must-have anyway.

IMHO ;-) Thanks for the consideration.

9/16/2005 @ 6:45am

David: I won't get rid of it but will probably make it optional in an upcoming options interface. Thanks for your feedback -- your humble opinions are welcome here anytime. Cheers! ~ Kevin

9/19/2005 @ 3:10pm

Requested feature:
* Would you consider enabling Link Checker to work properly with iframe content? Even if the workaround is only to add "Check Page Links" to the "This Frame" submenu.

Also, many thanks for updating Link Checker to work with the new Firefox branch updates... ;-)

by Shawn Horine

9/19/2005 @ 3:47pm

Shawn: That shouldn't be a huge issue. I'll look into it and see what I can find out. I still need to figure out how to allow concurrent link checking sessions to occur across different tabs, windows and/or iframes. Anyone out in JS/extension land have any idea? I have an idea where to get started but could certainly use a tip or two.

Thanks for your suggestion Shawn and thanks for using LinkChecker. Cheers! ~ Kevin

9/20/2005 @ 10:58am

awesome man this is gay

by steve

9/21/2005 @ 11:56am

Future Features: pt-BR language. ;)

by v1d4l0k4

9/21/2005 @ 7:39pm

v1d4l0k4: I'd be glad to -- any interest in translating? ~ Kevin

9/24/2005 @ 9:29am

Love this program! I use it check my entire Yahoo Bookmarks in one go. Just save the exported file & open a new tab with the online version & just delete as you go. I just wish there was a duplicate link color. ;)

by Ty

9/30/2005 @ 12:12am

Great extension!
It would be great to be able to turn the link checker on (and off) while browsing over multiple pages, instead of having to click it again every page.

by patrick

9/30/2005 @ 5:04am

Just discovered this nice tool. I wondered why, on http://infoscience.epfl.ch/, all the links containing query arguments are marked in yellow... ?

by Frederic

10/7/2005 @ 1:07am

Hi Kevin,
is it possible to check several Sites at the same time? My Website has 100 different sites and it would be nice to check them all at one time ...

by Markus

10/7/2005 @ 3:16am

Try Xenu's Link Sleuth (http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html). Great tool to check whole websites.

10/7/2005 @ 6:36am

That would've been my suggestion, to. My goal is to allow LinkChecker to check more than one page at once but not to automatically crawl an entire website.

10/7/2005 @ 8:29am

LinkChecker 0.4.2 produces a strange error message in the Status Bar with Firefox 1.5 beta 2.

10/7/2005 @ 8:31am

Forget my comment. It's OK when reinstalling it (a disable + quit/start + re-enable + quit/start sequence wasn't sufficient).

10/7/2005 @ 9:38am

Thanks vinc, I'll keep it in-mind when I'm testing.

10/13/2005 @ 2:07pm

Is there a way to have the LinkChecker extension run automatically when a new page is loaded in Firefox?

Ideally, I'd like to use a script to launch Firefox to a given page through a command line argument, and then immediately check all links on that newly opened page.

by tim

10/15/2005 @ 3:27am

This Tool is great when it comes to check broken links. But im missing a report-like summary. For example: XX broken links XX links(intern) XX links(extern).

by Angeln Fischen

10/15/2005 @ 6:16am

Angeln: My next goal with LinkChecker is to pop up a window or tab with a full, copy and pastable link report including anchors to take you to any broken link on long pages.

Thanks for using LinkChecker! ~ Kevin

10/21/2005 @ 11:53am

See category "Links" in the left hand menu (bottomline). Linkchecker does not check of those links

by Peter

10/27/2005 @ 4:54am

I get a lot of skipped http:// links. Any idea why? One of the addresses is http://froschblog.blogspot.com/2005_09_01_froschblog_archive.html
Thanks for any hint :)

by mudd1

10/27/2005 @ 7:32am

great!
thx

by Cisco

10/30/2005 @ 2:30am

In test page in Relative links "Two Slashes" - skipped link...

by Modex

11/8/2005 @ 5:51pm

I used this to check my bookmarks.html.
It is better to avoid to check "find:..." too.
This appears in SmartFind queries.

Thanks,

by Takeshi

11/9/2005 @ 8:47pm

Takeshi: Thanks for the info -- those "find:" links should now be fixed. Please let me know if you have a chance to test them.

Cheers! ~ Kevin

11/11/2005 @ 1:52am

It worked. I tested version 0.4.5. Thanks!

11/11/2005 @ 7:05pm

IT doesn't seem to work with links that look like this: javascript:openLink("Dir1/Dir2/Dir3//","-.")

by dch

11/11/2005 @ 7:10pm

Trying again: It doesn't seem to work with links that look like this: javascript:openLink("Dir1/Dir2/Dir3//","-.")

11/11/2005 @ 7:15pm

Sorry, elements of the URL are not displaying. They are variables enclosed by angle brackets.

11/15/2005 @ 11:06pm

I sent Japanese translation few days ago. Did you receive it?

11/21/2005 @ 10:55am

Great job! It would be great to have a color for rel="nofollow" links...

by Fernando Plaza

11/21/2005 @ 8:29pm

I was hoping this extension might help me make my website work in FIrefox. They show up green on the link check. It's a simple site I put together with Front Pageand the links don't work on Firefox - they all revert to my Humor page - NOT funny. Any help will be most appreciated!

by Judy

11/23/2005 @ 11:15pm

Judy:
I found an extra tag on your page.
I wrote to you the detail in e-mail, because it is tag matter and I don't know this BBS display tags correctly.

11/26/2005 @ 2:13pm

Thanks so much for your help however Front Page will not allow me to access the tag line I need to delete, per my e-mail response. I can find the line in FF or IE, make and save corrections wiht Notebook, but I can't make the changes transfer to my site.

11/26/2005 @ 5:28pm

Judy: I would suggest editing your website with a different program. I worked at a university for 5 years and we always recommended against using FrontPage. What then you say? Nvu is a Mozilla-based completely free WYSIWYG webpage editor, file manager, CSS editor, and FTP program. It's pretty impressive and may certainly behave better than FrontPage. You can download it at http://www.nvu.com

Cheers! ~ Kevin

11/26/2005 @ 10:01pm

Thank you Takeshi and Kevin. I think my links are finally working Firefox. :-) I downloaded and tried using Nvu to edit it but ultimately figured out how to find and delete the errant tag Takeshi identified for me using FP. My son is chagrined that I resorted to FP but I found Dreamweaver to be overwhelming for me.Thanks a million for your help and suggestions!

12/6/2005 @ 2:25pm

Checking GE.com crashes Firefox 1.5, LinkChecker 0.4.5 (running on Windows XP Professional). Looks like it's the "Search" link that trips it up.

by Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Flim

12/6/2005 @ 2:32pm

GE.com crashes on OS X too. Looks like they're using JS to write in the link -- when LinkChecker parses all the links on that page it must pick up on that one. I'll have to see what data goes along with it (if any) and try to find a way to skip it.

Thanks for the notice! ~ Kevin

12/7/2005 @ 11:07am

any chance , on mozilla 1.7.2 usage, if yes how to install?

by jerry

12/21/2005 @ 1:41pm

Any chance that this could be extended to display stats at the end of checking (ie. ## good, ## forbidden, ## broken, ## skipped) ? Otherwise I really love this extension!

by Daniel Vandersluis

12/21/2005 @ 2:08pm

Daniel: Absolutely yes. That's my next big step and is at the top of my "future features" listing above. The good news is that I'm doing some similar work on another extension. I also plan to add anchors to bad links so the report generated will allow linking directly to any culprit.

Cheers! ~ Kevin

12/21/2005 @ 2:19pm

Oh, I must have missed that when I was looking at it :S. A similar suggestion: have just the totals listed in the status bar after reaching 100% perhaps?

12/29/2005 @ 1:37pm

finlandto

by sex

1/4/2006 @ 11:18am

by Any chance you could provide some text decoraters ias alternatives to color (or in addition to color) so people who cannot see color can use this cool tool?

1/4/2006 @ 11:56am

That's a great idea that I'll add to the list. Symbols of some sort might work as well.

Thanks! ~ Kevin

1/5/2006 @ 6:29am

Any chance of being able to set a link as broken. Any errors on my site are picked up automatically and forwarded to an error page, it would be very useful to detect these using this tool

by Tom

1/13/2006 @ 2:11pm

I upgraged to:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
and my favorite extension link checker is not working ... Is it me or have you had other problems on the Macintosh side?

by Dwayne Pack

1/13/2006 @ 2:40pm

Dwayne: I run that same version of Fx at work on OS X and mine works just fine. You might try removing then re-adding LinkChecker. If this doesn't work, there could be a conflict with another extension. In that case, can you send me a screenshot or list of your extensions so I can test it out?

Cheers! ~ Kevin

1/16/2006 @ 6:41am

Maybe it's there and i have missed it, but what I really need is a way of jumping from one bad link to the next. The promised sidebar/summary would be one way, or a keyboard shortcut? I have pages with 250 links distributed over a 1000 lines of text to check for link errors, and simply scrolling down the page looking for red links is possible, but very prone to missing bad links.

by Nigel

1/18/2006 @ 11:15am

Great tool but I noticed one thing. If you have a custom 404 error page, it will not catch the bad links. I just temporarily disabled mine and it worked like a charm. I scanned the known issues and the posts but didn't see mention of this. Sorry if I didn't catch a similar post.

by Jennifer

1/18/2006 @ 11:22am

Jennifer: even with custom 404 pages you should also return a proper 404 header so search engines and programs like mine will know what to do with them. In PHP it would looking something like the following:

<? header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found"); ?>

1/18/2006 @ 11:48am

Thank you, Kevin. I am an ASP shop so Response.Status = "404 Not Found" worked.

1/18/2006 @ 1:09pm

Jennifer: Glad to hear it. Enjoy LinkChecker and please let me know if any other issues or ideas come up.

1/22/2006 @ 11:44pm

I believe this kind of a tool should work as below.

1. It can check all links at once. Better If you can choose one link or one folder.
2. It makes a folder (or folders) to collect invalid links in it.

I tried this version, but it was annoying to check many links. At least it should have some time abondon function.

by Masamaru Inaba

1/22/2006 @ 11:57pm

I'm sorry, I mistake this extension for "Bookmark LinkChecker". Your LinkChecker works just fine.

1/23/2006 @ 12:06am

I tried to use LinkChecker to check validity of links in my bookmark by appling it to "bookmarks.html". It worked fine. With a little twist (please correct no good links into special folders), this extension will be the best tool to check FireFox's bookmarks.

1/25/2006 @ 8:49am

Love the extension. Any chance you can create preferences and enable me to remove it from the right click menu? That'd be sweet.

by Thomas

1/25/2006 @ 9:10am

I'll put that on the list, Thomas. Thanks for the suggestion.

1/26/2006 @ 7:38am

"Viewing this directory is forbidden" on test page came up red for me instad of yellow.

Also- i had a link in a site listed as "http:www.link.com" without the two slashes after the colon, and the checker didn't catch it. The browser was looking for "www.mysite.com/www.link.com" which didn't exist.

by shannon collins

1/26/2006 @ 9:22am

shannon: I'll do some testing and see if I can fix those issues. Thanks for bringing up. Cheers!

1/31/2006 @ 8:11am

I am a web developer and commonly use '' to initiate js functions w/o reloading the page (like # does). When I use link checker on this type of link, it causes FireFox 1.5 to crash. I love your tool - please help.

by Jeremy

1/31/2006 @ 8:18am

my tags got removed. I was attempting to show <a href="javascript:;" onClick="...">

1/31/2006 @ 9:22am

really good, and usefull extension,
but (please) can you make it working on Frame Html pages ?
thanks,
keep a good works

by keyman

2/2/2006 @ 10:34am

It would be a great improvement if Links with the rel="nofollow" attribute are displayed in another color. Links to .exe files aswell.

by JP

2/10/2006 @ 7:05pm

same as keyman . . . this extension would be so much more useful to me if it would validate links within frames.
Thanx.

by Keith

2/14/2006 @ 5:37pm

Why doesn't the following launch Firefox with the Google home page open and automatically start LinkChecker?

firefox.exe http://www.google.com -chrome chrome://linkchecker/content/linkcheckerOverlay.xul

2/16/2006 @ 2:54am

Nice extension, Keith!

Using the checker on here:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/cll/skills/eportfolio/editing/howto/photo/
...keeps crashing Firefox (1.5.0.1)

Any ideas why?

Thanks!

by Graham

2/22/2006 @ 5:28am

I see the "log out" problem was posted before and "skip criteria" is a future feature. This would be great because we have a log out link on every page of a site and it LC consistently fails (and crahses FF) on that link (FF version 1.5.0.1).

by Duncan

2/22/2006 @ 6:39am

Duncan and everyone: I have an update in the works that allows links to be checked in user-highlighted areas. It also has an user-configurable exclusion capability to avoid those "delete" or "logout" links. I should have time to release by this weekend. Anyone willing to test it out before hand please email me at freitaka@blarg.net

~ Kevin

2/23/2006 @ 3:55pm

Page down to the bottom of this website and note the
"All links verified with LinkChecker FireFox extension
2/23/2006 6:06PM" (or whenever I last did it)
BTW, I have found that I can use Gadwin Printscreen (Gadwin.com, free) with the destination set to printer, to make screenprints of broken links while LinkChecker is running (w/o interrupting it) and then use these printouts when the check is finished to manually check/fix/whatever the problem links.

by John Robertson

2/23/2006 @ 7:41pm

John: Thanks for the links from your site. You've inspired me to make a couple patches people can copy onto their pages for LinkChecker and MeasureIt -- I may try and update those icons a bit, too so stay tuned.

~ Kevin

2/24/2006 @ 6:02am

What´s happend?
The LinkchChecker it´s not compatible with Netscape.

by Volker

3/1/2006 @ 11:50am

The links dont really get "tripped up" instead, the server responds to the number of closely reffered links and rejects and forwards giving the validation wron info. Is there a way to slow down the time between each check? Like.. 1 second per validation or even microseconds... a variable would probably be best so different servers with different reaction times can be accounted for.

by Paul

3/22/2006 @ 2:38am

Do you have any plans to update LinkChecker to check Firefox bookmarks? I've got thousands and they need culling/updating badly!

by Philip

3/29/2006 @ 5:06am

This link, though valid, fails the check:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/printer_friendly.cfm?name=mle_briefings_19

3/30/2006 @ 2:36am

When I try to download LinkChecker 0.4.5, I get an error message from Firefox saying 'couldn't install file located at http://www.kevinfreitas.net/extensions/linkchecker/linkchecker.xpi, reason : 'download error'.

OS X 10.4.5 - Firefox 1.5.0.1

by Morez

4/3/2006 @ 3:29pm

I LOVE this extension, however I seem to have found a bit of a glitch when checking some links today.

Three sites returned 'invalid' despite the fact that clicking on them does indeed take you to a valid and intended page.

The only common thing between them is that the actual file extension is '.shtml'.

Could it be that Link Checker does not recognize that as a valid extension? If so, is this fixable?

Otherwise, I have been a fan since I first used Firefox late 2004.

by Velvetrabbit

4/18/2006 @ 12:54pm

Great Extension!
I added it to my site http://www.concisefreeware.com/ best freeware & firefox extension.

by Yotam Elal

5/5/2006 @ 9:47pm

I don't have a handler for irc links (eg. irc://irc.mozilla.org/addons ) and when the link checker hits them it seems to just hang.

Firefox 1.5.0.2
Debian Linux

by Wil Clouser

5/6/2006 @ 8:25am

Wil: Thanks for the heads up -- I just fixed it up and it'll come out with the next version.

5/8/2006 @ 6:56pm

Great concept. Thanks for an excellent tool.

by Doug DePrenger

5/9/2006 @ 2:00pm

Thank you for the fantastic extension!

by Julianne Gentile

5/11/2006 @ 6:23am

Wow! Great! I like it. :) Really usefull extension

by Martin

5/12/2006 @ 3:34pm

Nice. Any way to get it packaged with the Spellbound extension? They were made for each other!

by Dotan Cohen

5/16/2006 @ 6:05am

To Dotan Cohen,
If you read the comments, you will see that Spellbound is NOT COMPATABLE with linkchecker.

by Shachar Demitri

5/18/2006 @ 8:37am

Kevin, what's the likelihood/timeline for having LinkChecker run on an entire site instead of one page at a time?

by Jillaine Smith

5/23/2006 @ 8:36pm

Would like to echo the request for running LinkChecker on an entire site instead of one page at a time. It could be bound by some distinction between internal vs. external links.

by Sophie

5/25/2006 @ 1:13pm

Would you be able to add a status bar button?

by C

6/2/2006 @ 11:26am

Is there any way to have a report window pop up saying how many of each type of link was found (e.g., broken, good, etc.)? Like the window that pops up when you spell check something, you know?

6/6/2006 @ 8:07am

Is there any way to turn off the results once your done viewing the links? It's kind of annoying with all of the highlighted text once I'm done looking for broken links etc.

6/6/2006 @ 10:10am

Chris: I have a sidebar or popup with result info on my list of future features above. I think it will be a necessary addition.

There's currently no way to turn off the colors but I'll add it to the feature wishlist above and certainly try to think of a way.

Thanks for the comments! ~ Kevin

6/7/2006 @ 7:14am

I didn't think of it, but as noted on the webpage (although not very prominently), refreshing the page removes the colors. It would be nice if the button provided were an on/off switch though.

6/7/2006 @ 2:27pm

Well, have used that tool today the first time. It`s fine... thank you guys!

by Kostenlos

6/16/2006 @ 8:47am

It occurred to me that it might be nice to have some kind of a link-depth setting, e.g, "4" so that a parent group would be followed to various subpages, looking for deeper child links.

by =dave=

6/29/2006 @ 5:03am

thanx for this cool extension

by otis

6/29/2006 @ 6:53am

First: Your extension is really great and usefull for me.
But: It would be much greater if it worked also on my website ;-) I tried to check http://www.schmitz-sh.de/malte/mlog.htm and http://www.schmitz-sh.de/malte/links.htm and it works fine until the last two links. Then I got the following errors before Firefox crashed:
---------------------------
firefox.exe - Fehler in Anwendung
---------------------------
Die Anweisung in "0x6009e54c" verweist auf Speicher in "0x0404e000". Der Vorgang

"written" konnte nicht auf dem Speicher durchgeführt werden.

Klicken Sie auf "OK", um das Programm zu beenden.
Klicken Sie auf "Abbrechen", um das Programm zu debuggen.
---------------------------
OK Abbrechen
---------------------------

---------------------------
firefox.exe - Fehler in Anwendung
---------------------------
Die Anweisung in "0x77889dca" verweist auf Speicher in "0x7ffffff9". Der Vorgang

"read" konnte nicht auf dem Speicher durchgeführt werden.

Klicken Sie auf "OK", um das Programm zu beenden.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

by Malte

7/3/2006 @ 3:04am

What´s ther matter?
Error message: "Die Datei linkchecker.xpi konnte nicht gefunden werden"

7/10/2006 @ 12:38am

Thank you for the information Really arbeit. See you soon sometimes again

by Schwarzenbek

7/13/2006 @ 6:32pm

Nice tool - Thanks

by erde

7/13/2006 @ 6:33pm

by Erde

7/14/2006 @ 6:45am

The extension rocks. Good work. Thanks for it.

by John

7/21/2006 @ 8:14am

This Firefox extension is pretty close to what I needed since quite some time, and has by far the most elegant and practical user interface of the dozen or so freeware linkcheckers that I tried. (My personal website features many hundreds of links, so a good linkcheck tool saves me quite a bit of of maintenance work.)

Kudos to Kevin!

Unfortunately there are various brands of "virtually" dead (or at least useless) links that are nevertheless color-coded green, and thus aren't differentiated from the really good links. Since this forces the user to check *all* links again another way, this reduces the usefulness of the tool for routine site maintenance quite a lot.

To clarify better what I mean, I have set up a sample page on my website
http://www.desonville.net/en/samplebadlinks.htm

In particular, the tool appears not to trap (often useless) [302] redirects, even though the color-code scheme suggests so --- while these redirects on the sample page are trapped and reported as such by, for instance, Link Valet or the w3c link check validator (that are, imho, much less handy in use).

My suggestion, for Kevin's consideration, would be to mark each and every link that is redirected in whichever color --- as long as it is not green!!! This might also mark a few perfectly sensible and intended redirects, but the user can manually and easily resolve these few ambiguities by clicking the links that aren't green. I think this would fit the spirit of the tool --- quickly differentiate between the bulk of links that are 100% okay and the few dubious links that require further checking.

by Erik

7/25/2006 @ 5:35am

Wow guys, great stuff up here! Go on ...

by Tottigol

7/26/2006 @ 8:22am

Great extension!

Is it possible to check links inside a javascript on the html page? these are in all other respects 'standard' links but they get skipped; this is a typical link:

by Guy

7/26/2006 @ 8:24am

7/27/2006 @ 4:29am

Thanks you !!!

Merci pour cette extension. Elle est extra et m'a permis de trouver tous les liens morts sur mon site

by Eric

7/27/2006 @ 10:03am

Thanks from me too. !
That is an very usefull extension.

by Angelike

7/28/2006 @ 2:57am

Great extension, very useful for a quick check. I second the remarks by Erik that being able to mark each and every link that is redirected in whichever color --- as long as it is not green seems like a very useful one.

That said, this tool is already great.
I am looking forward to all the upgrades.

by Gemme

8/9/2006 @ 9:38am

Useful extension, works flawless on my Mac. Great stuff, thanks!

by daso4

8/9/2006 @ 1:21pm

Great stuff, thanks! usefull thing!

by praca

8/9/2006 @ 5:01pm

Nice stuff, ic love this extension :)
Thanks!

by Phiro

8/11/2006 @ 10:48am

Great stuff from you guys. Cool extension

by S.E

8/12/2006 @ 11:15am

with whitch programm i can open the file?

by bergescout

8/13/2006 @ 8:46am

so good !!! i find it finally...i use Xtreeme SiteXpert just now

by maxleveling

8/13/2006 @ 8:53am

oh!Kevin thx for your pluging. is very cool and easy to use!!

by nuncky

8/16/2006 @ 2:59am

This extension is really good. Thanks folks!

by Michael

8/18/2006 @ 5:49am

A friend of mine who is writing a book and ebook combination asked me to help him validate 3000 citations, many of which contained urls.

I wrote a program to parse out his urls into a dummy html page to make checking the links easier.

Your extension enabled me to give him a color coded report which I easily parsed ( thanks for the link titles! ) into different types of bad links.

Your work saved a lot of people a lot of drudgery

by Steve

8/19/2006 @ 5:49pm

This is a link to a really good online news letter that keeps up with what's going on in Tacoma, new businesses, etc. Enjoy!!
http://www.enewsbuilder.net/forwardtacoma/e_article000609712.cfm?x=b7T5Rst,b5D0Vphm,w

by Ronnie

8/22/2006 @ 3:45pm

Hey Kevin, thx for this pretty nice extension! Really good work!

by juli

8/23/2006 @ 10:20pm

Good work. Thanks for it.

by Schnell wie die Feuerwehr

8/24/2006 @ 10:23am

I hate being a "me too," but I do want to thank you for a creating a great tool.

by Dan Romanchik

8/24/2006 @ 10:49am

Damm good job. Works fine for me. Thanks

by Designer

8/24/2006 @ 2:37pm

Hi Kevin, Does linkchecker actually open up each link or does it just ping to see if it's online?

9/4/2006 @ 10:36pm

It does not run automatically on my Firefox, but I run by doing a simply right click.

by Benj

9/5/2006 @ 3:25am

Nice extension, works like a charm, thx!

by Kalu

9/18/2006 @ 7:29am

Hello, This seems like a very nice tool but I had a problem. I used it against my bookmarks.html in my reorganization efforts and got a page of many colors. Hoping to figure out why a gray link was called "skipped" I clicked on it, saw why, and went back. ALL the link highlights were gone!!! Are they recoverable or do I have to run linkchecker again (it ran for over 3 hours--yes, a big reorganization job is ahead of me.) Thanks.

by Suzi

9/21/2006 @ 10:43am

Thanks for this great script

by grafie

9/22/2006 @ 9:57am

It is good for me.

by MBA

9/26/2006 @ 12:58pm

Very goog extension. Thanks a lot

by Uwe

9/27/2006 @ 2:23am

reorganization efforts and got a page of many colors. Hoping to figure out why a gray link was called "skipped" I clicked on it, saw why, and went back. ALL the link highlights were gone!!! Are they recoverable or do I have to run linkchecker again (it ran for over 3 hours--yes, a big reorganization job is ahead of me.) Thanks.

by katalog

9/27/2006 @ 10:13am

Keyconfig extension:
What is the code I should use for a keyconfig binding to launch your link checker (which is great, btw)? I am a poweruser, just not a programmer.

by jkaluski

10/1/2006 @ 5:34am

Hi Kevin, This is a very useful tool for everyone. Thanks for it. Really good work!

by Camions

10/3/2006 @ 7:33pm

Linkchecker is failing on the FTP site that you put on your test page.

The thing is a bit aggressive, isn't it? I just got blocked from del.icio.us for accessing the site too quickly. Can we have a preference to set the program to access no faster than once per X seconds?

(...and don't you love comment spam? A lot of it above my post -- but I hope you won't ignore this.)

by KC

10/3/2006 @ 9:06pm

KC: I programmed it so it'll move as fast as it can from one link to the next. I suppose I could create an override that limits the number of links checked at a time. I'll add it to the list of future features above. Cheers!

10/4/2006 @ 6:26am

Version 0.6.1 of LinkChecker is now out with a few additions:

- it now works with w/Fx 2.0 PR
- checking only the links you want by highlighting/selecting them, right-clicking, then choosing "Check Links in Selected"
- you can now choose your link highlight colors in LinkChecker's options
- avoid mass-deleting or sign-out links by using the keyword exclusion list to tell LinkChecker which links to skip over

Please let me know what you think of these additions and especially if you find any problems. Above all, thanks for using LinkChecker!

10/5/2006 @ 11:32am

It seems to add an extra horizontal rule in the right-click menu in Firefox 2.0 RC1 in particular if a link is right clicked on. Not really an "bug" persay, but kind of weird.

by Patrick

10/6/2006 @ 3:49am

This is a great tool. I use it within an CMS and it works very well. Thank you!

by Afrika Fan

10/6/2006 @ 12:14pm

Nice tool. Thank. Pitty Firefox is so damn slow ;(

by Miejsca

10/14/2006 @ 3:06am

Hi Kevin
Can you upoan your extension on babelzilla.org?
There to easy to translate and update locale...

10/14/2006 @ 3:08am

upload :)

10/14/2006 @ 1:52pm

Thanks for the tool and go on please!

by DlAdzIeCI

10/15/2006 @ 7:08am

Congratulation, nice tool and very useful. Thanks for making it.

by Maxi

10/20/2006 @ 4:23am

by Pozycjonowanie

10/20/2006 @ 8:28am

Great extension, very useful for me....

by Restposten

10/22/2006 @ 12:43pm

It's a great FF extension. Very useful.

by Webkatalog

10/22/2006 @ 12:44pm

Thanks a lot for this one. It works great and saves me a lot of time.
regards, Lars

by Lars

10/22/2006 @ 2:56pm

Linkchecker is failing on the FTP site that you put on your test page. Why?

by Marc

10/22/2006 @ 9:36pm

air europa fruit agenzia modelli piccolo elettrodomestico final fantasy xii adriana sklenarikova bikers nina mercedez golf gti yemen

2/1/2010 @ 9:09am

What is a "forwarded or forbidden link"? My page is full of them. I don't know what they are! Also, even if these links are broken, the checker doesn't detect it. It displays even broken ones in the "forwarded or forbidden link" color.

by Kara Warburton

2/3/2010 @ 7:10am

Kara: the "forwarded or forbidden link" is when it receives a 403 header from the link it's checking. If you have a page you'd like me to review to see what might be going on leave another comment with the URL or feel free to email it to pro -at- kevinfreitas -dot- net

2/8/2010 @ 6:30am

Great! Thank you, Kevin.
I've modified it for testing purposes, to scan a page for href's matching a regex. Links that don't match are marked.
Here, outline: 3px solid red; outline-offset:-1px; worked better for me, instead of backgrounds.

by Ingo Chao