LinkChecker for Firefox debuts

Whether you're looking for good links or bad links LinkChecker, my new extension for Firefox, is just the tool for you. It's as easy to use as green, yellow, red. It came to me one day at work while I was searching a large page for one broken link hidden among the paragraphs of text. I thought about various link validation tools and how none of them really hit the nail on the head. With those programs, all they give me is a massive shopping list of dead link from all over a website. Understandably, finding any and all broken links is a good thing but there certainly can be too much of a good thing. My biggest gripe with these spider-generated lists is that they provide little more context than an address for the page a dead link exists on. Since this was just the problem I have at work from now and then, I decided to do something about it and thus, LinkChecker was born.

Once on a page, any page, LinkChecker enables a user to easily seek out nefarious links by color coding them in green, yellow, or red. Although this extension doesn't spider an entire website it does give you context-based link information in-situ on a webpage. I have some ideas to provide more data and progress info in a sidebar sometime in the future but, for now, the tool is simple and powerful. My favorite combination.

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