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Open Long Urls 0.2.1

What is this?

This is an extension for Firefox, Mozilla and Thunderbird that adds an option to your File menu which allows you to open URLs that span several lines. It solves the problem of long urls recieved in email, that has been broken up onto two or more lines.

How do I use it?
  1. Click File > Open Long URL (or press CTR+ALT+O)
  2. Enter the long url into the dialog that appears
  3. Select if you want it to open in a, new window, new tab, or current window and tab
  4. Click Open

Download Dialog - Select 'Open with Win32 application'

Options

In the options dialog you can enter a list of other characters you would like to have stripped out of URLs. For example, in emails, sometimes each line of a forwarded message starts with > symbol. When ths has been added to the list, it will be automatically stripped out of all urls.



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Version History
v 0.2.1
05/05/2005
  • Added options dialog
v 0.1
06/01/2004
  • Launched with basic functionality