Updated 28^th June 2009

Currently present:

• URL Link
  
  • NEW! Version 2.02.4 Works with Thunderbird 3.0!
  • The current version here is the beta of 2.02.4 which should be available offically in a week.
  • From now on, I’m going to be putting new versions up on the official extensions site as well as here, although it takes about a week to get them formally reviewed and listed. Let me know it this causes problems.

  URL Link is a small Firefox and ThunderBird extension that allows you to select a non-URL in a mail or news message, and open it in a browser window.

  For emails, it reconnects links in emails which have been broken across several lines, and also replaces spaces with the URL character code %20 to that you may follow emailed network file: links (which it auto-detects from Windows X: or \\serv\dir references).

  For web pages, it also allows you to select textual links/URLs in web pages or edit boxes, and follow them as if they were real links. It will always let you follow ‘links’ and also analyses mailto: links.

  New in 2.00 is a dialogue allowing customisation of the open-as menu.

  Has several language translations; more are welcome!

• A Mozilla ‘Sherlock’ search-engine plugin for the Jargon File. Here’s the src file and the png to go with it. You can install it automatically, or find it, along with a whole bunch of others, at the Mycroft Mozdev site. If you’ still using Mozilla and not Firefox, I recommend the Easysearch plugin too, although with Firefox I’m now hooked on the Googlebar plugin.

• In case you’ interested, and you’re still using Mozilla, here’s the original MailLink version 0.06, plus Ted Mielczarek’s TextLink.