# Link Investigator

> Investigates the HTTP status of links in a webpage, selection or link.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/link-investigator](https://chrome-stats.com/d/link-investigator)

## Overview

- **ID:** `link-investigator`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Geoffrey De Belie
- **Category:** web-development,tabs
- **Daily users:** 12
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.3.0
- **Last updated:** 2020-03-06
- **First published:** 2019-01-06
- **Size:** 145 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/link-investigator/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/Smile4ever/Link-Investigator](https://github.com/Smile4ever/Link-Investigator)

## Description

Link Investigator is a Firefox add-on that investigates the HTTP status of links in webpages, selections, or individual links. Color-coded indicators, tooltips, and an overview window provide easy identification of link availability. It offers shortcuts, right-click menu options, and a browser action button for quick and convenient link checking.

## Rankings

- #30,363 — Overall
- #245 — status

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `contextMenus`
- `notifications`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/link-investigator)