If you are a cautious user on the Internet you might want to find out as much as possible about sites that you are going to visit before actually visiting them. The basic concept of Link Extend is to provide a wide range of information about a selected link. It queries more than 20 different web services and displays the results in an overlay on the same page. Results are divided into different categories like Safety, Kid Safe or Ethics.
Each web service rates the link that has been analyzed. This ranges from low risk to high risk websites in the Safety category, safe, suspicious or unsafe in the Kid Safe category or very good and very bad in the Ethics category. A total of eight different services are queried in the safety category including Site Advisor, Google Safe Browsing or Norton. The other two categories make use of three services each like WOT, Icra or Corporate Critic.
There are various additional information which are mostly webmaster related like displaying the Pagerank, the age of a website or Alexa status. Link Extend comes with its own toolbar and integrates itself in the right-click context menu. This means that the toolbar is not needed to use the Firefox extension. One interesting option that is available in the program’s settings is the ability to hide websites from search results if they have been rated.
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Too heavy, far too heavy. And toolbars are invasive. Use OpenDNS as DNS resolver (includes website specific filtering) and a good Internet Security software should be enough. “Should” because even tanks get destroyed.
This is only my opinion, of course
You can disable the toolbar and only work with the right-click entry.
Is the information retrieved on user request or systematically for every site, and, can the search engines’ provided ratings be disabled? The extension’s info lacks… information, as often.
Will it affect my browsing speed?
Mony > It affects less my browsing speed (as well as my cpu) than streaming audio with XMPLayer!
With these various checks I thought it will be slow. If it doesn’t, I am very eager to make a try.
This causes Symantec Endpoint Protection to through an error 21631 error about Alexa intrusion. The detection occurs about every 3 minutes and fills the logs. Don’t use these two products in conjunction.