Simple Hinting Firefox

Simple Hinting

Allow keyboard browsing through links hinting.

Features & Capabilities

This addon displays small green numbered labels next to the links of the current page when you press Alt + Shift + L.

If you enter one of the displayed numbers, followed by a special keycode, you'll be redirected to the link target, either directly or by opening a new window or tab.

The keycodes are the following:

  • f (follow), browse in current tab;
  • t (tab), open in a new tab;
  • w (window), open in a new window;
  • i (incognito) or p (private), open in a new private window (only if you’ve authorized this addons to run on private windows);
  • v (view), don't do anything, just display the target URL.
At any time, pressing c or Esc will cancel the link selection and remove all green labels.

Privacy

This addon try to protect your privacy by removing unwanted tracking parameters from the URL you are trying to go to. Another widespread privacy invading behavior consists by hiding real links behind a short link, which is responsible to track who click on which link, and when. In this later case, this addon call an external web service, which will expand a tiny URL, before removing its tracking parameters, if any. That is why this addon ask for the permission to contact unshorten.umaneti.net host.

To avoid asking too frequently to this same remote web service what to do about a link, this addon will download from it two lists:

  • a list of known tracking parameters, which will help it to remove them from already expanded URLs without having to contact the remote service;
  • a list of known shorten URL services, for which this addons must contact the remote web service to resolve and clean them.
This two lists are then stored in your web browser addons storage area (hence the permission to use it).

The source code of the previously mentioned external web service is available too.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Manifest V3 Add-on
By:
Étienne Pflieger
Daily users:
5 -1
Rating:
2.50
(2)
Version:
0.6.0 Last updated: 2023-12-15
Version code:
5665187
Creation date:
2016-04-03
Risk:
Low risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
Permissions:
Host permissions:
  • https://unshorten.umaneti.net/*
Size:
475.92KB
URLs:
Website
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Firefox Add-ons Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-18
Compare stats and ranking:

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Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Firefox add-on. Please use these information below to contact the Firefox add-on developer.
Developed by:
Étienne Pflieger
Firefox Add-ons Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/simple-hinting/
Website:
https://git.umaneti.net/simple_hinting/about/

Permission Change History

2023-12-15: Version 0.5.5 → 0.6.0
Add Host permissions: https://unshorten.umaneti.net/*
Add Permissions: scripting
Remove Permissions: https://unshorten.umaneti.net/*

User Reviews

Sur https://duckduckgo.com/?q=firefox+simple+hinting&ia=web, j'ai entré Alt-Shift, dans cet ordre car l'autre ne fonctionne pas, puis 51v. Je m'attendais à voir l'URL mais https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-hinting/ s'est ouvert. Si depuis cette page, je fais 51f, la page en cours est réactualisée. J'ai l'impression que ce n'est pas un problème général avec tous les sites, car sur un autre il fonctionnait comme indiqué Je rajoute qu'il n'est pas toujours évident de savoir à quel lien correspond le numéro indiqué. Peut-être faudrait-il essayer de mettre un effet visuel sur le lien lui-même une fois le numéro saisi. Merci pour votre travail.
by Fi*****, 2019-12-15

by mk*****, 2018-07-17
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Is Simple Hinting Safe?

Risk impact
Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Simple Hinting requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Low Request access to the following domains: umaneti.net
Risk likelihood
Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Add-ons Store, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. 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 Firefox add-on.

Simple Hinting is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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