Link Alert

This extension displays an icon next to the cursor indicating the target of a link

Link Alert Chrome Extension

Link Alert enhances your browsing experience by displaying an informative icon next to your cursor when hovering over links. This tooltip preview indicates exactly where a link will take you, showing icons for PDFs, external sites, and whether a link is secure or not. This handy feature helps users navigate confidently, preventing unexpected clicks on potentially unsafe or unknown destinations.

Users can customize which icons are shown and adjust tooltip appearance, including background and border colors, to fit personal preference. The extension is regularly updated to support new link types and additional customization options, ensuring it remains a valuable tool for safer and more informed web navigation.

By:
ahallicks
Users:
378 5
Rating:
4.71
(7)
Version:
1.1.1 Last updated: 2014-09-16
Creation date:
2014-09-16
Risk:
Moderate risk impact Low risk likelihood
Permissions:
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
  • http://127.0.0.1/*
  • http://localhost/*
  • notifications
  • storage
Size:
289.00KB
Email:
ah*****@gmail.com
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Chrome Web Store
Updated:
a day ago

User reviews

Great extension, very useful. I doubt the developer will read this, since it says this extension was last updated on 16 September 2014, but you never know... What surprises me is that you can only allow a maximum of 4 icons to show when hovering over a link, while there's a total of 44 different ones of them that could indicate what kind of page a link will take you to. Am I doing something wrong, CAN it actually show more than 4? In that case, I hope someone can tell me. I'd like for it to show at least 10 icons as indicators, even though I know it's very unlikely for a single link to make all 10 of them appear. But if you've picked only 4 of them and the link you're checking will take you to another kind of page (which has an indicating icon, but you didn't check it because you already picked 4 others), then it won't tell you... The reason mentioned above is why I'm giving 4 starts out of 5. Without this little issue I'd give it 5 stars.
by As*****, 2023-05-12

Просто супер! После установки этого расширения интернет стал гораздо комфортнее!
by Ал*****, 2020-01-23

Thrilled you forked this for Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. It's working in Vivaldi browser too. Some bugs whether in Chrome or Vivaldi. On certain pages, haven't figured out the pattern yet, the icons end up being giant-sized, and vertically-oriented. Which also flips the X Y offset settings. They end up being treated as images that are on top of the link, preventing the link from being either clicked or right-click copied. Articles on Rollingstone.com and some on CNN often display this problem. But great effort for a first fork to Chromium, and your adding the toolbar button for enable/disable makes it easy to turn off on sites with the problem, in order to get links to work.
by Anonymous, 2017-10-21
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Extension safety

Risk impact
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Link Alert requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood
Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Chrome extension may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Chrome extension reputation on Chrome Web Store, the amount of time the Chrome extension has been around, and other signals about the Chrome extension. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Chrome extension.

Link Alert has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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