Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Firefox user ea6516 on Aug. 4, 2009 ·

This add-on is great! Really helpful for people who do a lot of research and the like. My only complaint is that it is rather easily ignored way down there in the corner. Perhaps in future updates we could have the option of moving it? I would love to have it up by my toolbars which is where I would very easily notice it!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.1). 

by fcp (Developer) on Aug. 6, 2009 ·

Thank you for your review, and I am glad you like it!

It is difficult to move the icon to a place other than the statusbar. In the current design, Link Status shows the icon in the statusbar because the address of the linked page is also shown there. Moving the icon to (say) the toolbar is not technically difficult, but if we do so, the user interface will become confusing because the icon will no longer be visually associated to the link address or the link itself.

Showing the icon near the link itself is much more intuitive. Unfortunately, as far as I know, it cannot be implemented without opening a hole to the privacy. This situation will change when the bugs 130078 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130078) and 313190 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313190) of Firefox are fixed.

I am considering about moving the icon to the location bar when the Fission extension is used and the “Active link/mouse-over link in the address bar” option of Fission is enabled. See 7KTech’s review on July 23 and my reply on July 24.

If you have further comments on this feature request, write to me by email.