Chrome extension - make links from text

[bill]

Somebody was saying that they had a FireFox extension that made unlinked URLs in webpage text clickable. Does anyone know of a similar extension in Chrome?

Since we have active links turned off here I thought it might save me a few  steps to check out some of the references being made here.

[jangro]

You don't need an extension.  Just highlight the link and right click and you'll get a "Go to http..." in the context menu.



There are probably some extensions that make links clickable inline without the effort of highlighting.  Though that may defeat the purposes of not making them clickable in the first place (http referers)

[bill]

I'm aware of the right click function. I've been using that in The Core forums for years. I'm a lazy person by nature and wanted to cut even that out.

[jangro]

right, in that case, something like this is probably what you're looking for.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mblbciejcodpealifnhfjbdlkedplodp

Except you've got RC and others putting hxxp:// on urls.

[rcjordan]

>RC and others putting hxxp://

I'm not doing that now that LM installed the flat url module.

[jangro]

These browser extensions will turn plain text links into clickable links.

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1939/
Safari: http://firedev.com/text2link/
Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mblbciejcodpealifnhfjbdlkedplodp

[bill]

Excellent. That's just what I was looking for. Cheers!

[Drastic]

Linkification for FF doesn't send out referrers:

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

Also makes hxxp:// clickable.

[littleman]

Good to know.  Does it work with domains that don't have the http://, say like domain.com?

[Drastic]

Does not make domain.com clickable.