Telify, Convert Phone Numbers Into Links For Use With Skype

Telify, an extension for the Thunderbird email client and Mozilla Firefox web browser, turns phone numbers in emails and on web pages into clickable links that open supported voice applications to make calls more comfortably.

All it takes is to click on the phone number to initiate that call directly in the selected application. The preferences offer options to select one of the supported protocols. Available for selection are skype:, tel:, callto:, sip: and a custom url protocol.

It is furthermore possible to configure the extension to dial directly if a country code is present or open a menu instead. The menu is always displays if no country code is present.

Additional options include the configuration of text highlighting from the default light highlighting to none, medium or strong, if the own country code should be suppressed, if + should be replaced in phone numbers and how many numbers of recently used country codes should be displayed.

The extension processes each page or email and turns any phone number that matches the supported formats into a clickable link based on the user’s preferences.

A left-click on a phone number that has been turned into a link opens a selection menu which offers choices to call that number. The very same options are also available on right-click. A middle-click on the other hand bypasses the menu and launches the phone number directly in the selected application.

Some users are reporting compatibility problems of the extension and the Gmail website which I cannot confirm. The extension worked fine there as well.

Telify is available for both the Thunderbird email client and the Mozilla Firefox web browser.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Monday January 17, 2011 -
Tags:callto, firefox add-ons, sip, skype, tel, telify, thunderbird extension, voip