How to add related links to firefox

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Related links was one of the key features I used a lot in mozilla and
found quite useful. For anyone who misses them in firefox here are a
couple of bookmarklets.

Get related links from Alexa
javascript:document.location.href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url="+document.location.href

Get related links from Google
javascript:document.location.href="http://www.google.com/search?q=related:"+document.location.href

(p.s. each of the two is one line... if your newsreader break any then
rejoin it)

How to add to firefox and use:
I add them to my Bookrmarks Toolbar Folder. The surest way is to click
Bookmarks | Manage Bookmarks, which will bring up the Bookmarks
Manager, then to click the New Bookmark Button, which will bring up a
Peroperties for "New Bookmark" dialog. In that enter the following:
- In Name, "Alexa's Related Links", or "Google's Related Links".
- In Location, cut&paste into it one of the respective (Alexa's for
Alexa and Google's for Google) javascript bookmarklet I mentioned
above (make sure it's not been broken by your newsreader - cut&paste
it into notepad first then to the dialog to be sure).
- in Keyword, you can enter a keyword that you can type into the
location bar and it'd execute the bookmarklet. Personally, I use "gl"
for Google (Google's Links as I already use "gr" for Google's GRoups),
and "lx" for Alexa.


Also: WayBackMachine!

javascript:document.location.href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/"+document.location.href

Same as above. :-)
 
Mike said:
Related links was one of the key features I used a lot in mozilla and
found quite useful. For anyone who misses them in firefox here are a
couple of bookmarklets.

Get related links from Alexa
javascript:document.location.href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url="+document.location.href

Get related links from Google
javascript:document.location.href="http://www.google.com/search?q=related:"+document.location.href
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There are a couple of extensions that do this.

See for example
http://www.quirk.co.za/searchstatus/
 
There are a couple of extensions that do this.

See for example
http://www.quirk.co.za/searchstatus/
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Doubious people.. they have a link to a site that claims that
you can get firefox from, and that site takes you to the
mozilla site.. Why not just have the Mozilla site ??

Seems that it's a click gathering scheme, which would cast
doubt about any service they offer..

Or am I being paranoid ??
 
Doubious people.. they have a link to a site that claims that
you can get firefox from, and that site takes you to the
mozilla site.. Why not just have the Mozilla site ??
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That button/link is just part of www.spreadfirefox.com marketing
campaign which itself is offically supported by Firefox (linked from
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ with the linktext "spread the
word").

Lots of sites have it, eg many blogs, none-profit organisations, hobby
sites etc. Heck even my site has one.

Seems that it's a click gathering scheme, which would cast
doubt about any service they offer..
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Yes, it's just a way to count how many people find firefox through your
website. A friendly competition , they certainly aren't paid for
clicksthrus if that is what you are implying.
Or am I being paranoid ??
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Yes, you are paranoid at least in this case. I think yhere is some
privacy risks using third party extensions that add google's PR rank
though. And this is beyond that of using the normal google PR toolbar
feature.
 
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