Multiple services are available in the other website information categories as well. The best part is that these information can be easily accessed. Options are to display a toolbar in Firefox that displays some of the information right away and offers one-click access to everything else. Not everyone wants to use a toolbar on the other hand. That’s why there is also the possibility to right-click on a link to display the information in a overlay window. An overall rating is displayed on top of each category that is computed from the results of all single results.

The add-on does not slow down the web browsing experience noticeably.

Overview of the services offered by Link Extend:

• Safety – Web of Trust, McAfee SiteAdvisor, Web Security Guard, Browser Defender, Norton Safe Web, DrWeb, Compete, Google Safe Browsing
• KidSafe – Web of Trust, Alexa, Browser Defender, Web Security Guard, Google SafeSearch, ICRA
• Ethics – Scryve, Knowmore, CorporateCritic
• Site Traffic – Alexa, Quantcast, Compete, Statbrain
• Thumbnails – GooglePreview, MyThumbnail, Websnapr, Thumbshot

Link Extend comes with extensive settings that can be configured in the add-on’s options. This includes removing services that are not needed, configuring how and where thumbnails are displayed, setting up context menu entries, configuring search engine options that include hiding unsafe options, toolbar options and if suspicious or unsafe websites should be added to the Firefox browsing history.

Link Extend is compatible with several search engines including Google Search or Yahoo Search. It might take some time to configure the Firefox add-on properly but the process should be worth it for many users who like to be on the safe side when surfing the Internet.

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.