Link Alert is a Chrome extension that adds an advanced functionality to web browsing by providing visual indications next to links. These indications, in the form of icons, give you an idea of the destination of the links, whether they direct to a PDF, external sites, or if they are secured or not. The extension allows you to customize the display of the tooltips and also promises regular updates with new icons and options.
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Links haven't changed since their inception a long time ago. These days a link can take you just about anywhere. Wouldn't it be really handy if you had some indication of what you were clicking on? With Link Alert you do! It'll highlight links with a little tooltip indicating where the link is likely to take you. For example, links to PDFs show a small PDF icon in the tooltip, external links show an icon and you can even see which links aren't secure from secure pages.
You have the option to select which icons are shown as well as changing some aspects of the display of the tooltip, such as the background and border colours.
The extension will also be updated regularly to include new icons and options. Updates can be found from the options for the extension.
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.
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.
Ashi Ashi, 2023-05-12
Александр В, 2020-01-23
A Google user, 2017-10-21
