Show The Finger URL

Show The Finger URL

Shows the URL of the link that is under your finger on touch-screen devices.

What is Show The Finger URL?
Show The Finger URL is a Chrome extension that allows you to view the URL of a link on touch-screen devices. By focusing the URL when you press your finger on the link, it provides a workaround for not being able to see the URL by tapping on the link itself.
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By: em_te
Users: 2 ▼ -1
Version: 0.1.2 (Last updated: 2020-11-15)
Creation date: 2020-11-11
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 16.52K
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Not available on Firefox
Show The Finger URL
Show The Finger URL (v0.1.2)
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Summary

When you want to know the URL that a link points to, you can put the mouse pointer over the link and see the URL in the status bar. But on touch-screen devices tapping on the link doesn't show the URL.

This extension, enables showing the URL in the status bar on touch screen devices by focusing the URL when you press your finger on the link.

To prevent clicking on the actual link, simple move your finger slightly after pressing on it which will scroll the screen slightly and cancel the link click.

Safety
Risk impact

Show The Finger URL is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Show The Finger URL has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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