firefox addon that makes urls clickable?

[jcmuse]

im looking for a tool that will take urls in a webpage and auto make them clickable. A lot of times i will come across urls (e..g http://google.com) that are not tagged as urls so i cant click them.

[Joe Average]

The best you're going to get (at least so far in my experience) is Plain Text To Link. Having a plugin that turns every single URL on a page into a clickable link would wreak havoc with a lot of stuff I'd think. PTTL works far better: just highlight the text of the URL you want, then right click on the text and Open with PTTL.

I'd say change the option in the settings and have it open in a new tab, personally, as I can't stand having to go Back/Forward excessively. I always open new content in a separate tab so I don't lose my place or need to "back up" ever.

Plain Text To Link (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/623) at the Firefox Add-ons site

[DefineByte]

Linkification (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/190) does what you want. It can make loading a little slow on very large pages but this can be tuned to automatically run only on pages below a certain size.

Works well for me. :)

[Azhar]

I thought this was built into Firefox. If a link isn't tagged, you can rightclick on it and there'll be a selection that lets you open the page.

[DefineByte]

Not for me. Sounds like you've got an extension installed that does that. :)

[jcmuse]

thanks guys. Linkification did the trick.

firefox does actually have the "open text link" in the right-click menu built-in, so you don't really need PTTL for that. At least mine does.

[DefineByte]

Very strange. I really don't think it is built in. Would be good if it was though.