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Fetch linked pages and show the title in tooltip.
I wrote this because I was tired of seeing links to Amazon and IMDb with uninformative text and URLs -- I don't want to load a page just to know what book or movie someone is talking about. Since other sites do this, too, I opted to include all external links, rather than just specific sites.
+Ignores links to the same site, even if the host is different -- links from www.example.com to biz.example.com are ignored.
+By default, excludes Google, Yahoo, and Altavista, since search result pages are external-link dense, and normally well-labeled.
+If the link is to a page with no title, the title is set to "No title".
+Reports errors in the link title
+Now fetches pages which pass parameters in the link
+Handles non-ASCII character in titles
+Fixed handling of linebreaks between title tags
This is my first Greasemonkey script, and I'm sure there's some rooom for improvement, but it's working for me so far.
Cathy Mullican
Script's author
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"Please wait..." is displayed while the script is still processing. If there are many links on the page, it may take a little while to title them all, especially if one or more goes to a server that's slow to respond. I see the page title on your link above. Normally, your browser will show the destination URL in the status bar at the bottom of the page, so adding the to the script would be overkill. At least, every browser I've used in the past 10+ years did something like that. |
ekbworldwide
Scriptwright
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How about if your script solved another problem of the click >here< dilemma? If the link doesn't have a title
The title sometimes isn't enough. This link is titled "Please wait..."
I found it in a blog with a link titled "Click this link". It's an image of a cat with purring audio. |
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