Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Firefox user a67dda on Sept. 4, 2009 ·

Great, but it doesn't work very well with the AutoHideStatusbar extension when you don't have the "show when hovered over a link option" enabled. I don't, because I found it too distracting.

I also use Fission. But for the same reason as above, I don't use the option to show the destination link in the locationbar. Instead, I use a (userChromeJS) script to show the link in a tooltip. This is the least distracting way IMHO.

So I have a suggestion that would make this an almost perfect companion for both of these extensions: Provide an option to show the link status and/or the link in a tooltip (when hovered over a link).

This way it would work with (and complement) both of these add-ons.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.2). 

by fcp (Developer) on Sept. 7, 2009 ·

Thank you for your review and suggestion. I confirmed that Link Status conflicts with the autoHideStatusbar extension; with Link Status installed, autoHideStatusbar can fail to hide the statusbar. Unfortunately, I have currently no idea how to fix it.

As for your suggestion, it is unfortuantely impossible to show the bookmarked/visited icon in a toolbar without giving up the privacy which Link Status provides, at least until bugs 130078 and 313190 of Firefox are fixed. See also Novadestin’s review on August 4 and my reply to it (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/reviews/display/12312#review-151580).

If you have further comments on this suggestion, write to me by email. Thank you for your interest in Link Status!