tdulcet / link-creator

🔗 Open selected URIs, URLs, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and links

Link Creator

Open selected URIs, URLs, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and links

Copyright © 2021 Teal Dulcet

Firefox, Chromium and Thunderbird add-on/WebExtension to open selected URIs, URLs, email addresses, telephone numbers and links.

• *Allows opening arbitrary URIs
• Allows opening URLs
  • Supports the optional HTTP/HTTPS and FTP protocols
• Allows opening e-mail addresses (uses the mailto: URI)
  • Supports munged addresses, such as those of the form example [at] example [dot] com
• *Allows calling and messaging telephone numbers (uses the tel: and sms: URIs)
  • Automatically converts letters to numbers
• Allows opening multiple URIs
• Allows copying the formatted URI, URL, email address or telephone number to your clipboard
• Allows viewing the source of URLs (uses the view-source: URI)
• Supports Internationalized domain names (IDNs), IRIs and International email addresses
• Shows a live preview of the link(s) that would open
• Supports opening links in the current tab, a new tab (default), a new window or a new private/incognito window (Firefox and Chrome only)
• Supports lazy loading tabs (Firefox and Chrome only)
• Fully compliant with the respective URI/IRI, URL and email address RFC standards, including the errata
• Checks that URL and e-mail address hostnames have a valid public suffix using Mozilla's Public Suffix List (PSL)
• The PSL is automatically downloaded and updated directly, without needing to update the entire extension
  • This allows users to enjoy much faster and more frequent updates and thus more accurate information
• Supports URLs and e-mail addresses with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
  • Supports IPv4 addresses in dotted octal, decimal and hexadecimal notations/formats
  • Supports IPv4-mapped, IPv4-compatible and IPv4-embedded IPv6 addresses
• Supports the light/dark mode of your system automatically
• Settings automatically synced between all browser instances and devices (Firefox and Chrome only)
• Follows the Firefox and Thunderbird Photon Design
• Context menu items have access keys

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* Requires supported program

Download

• Addons.mozilla.org (AMO)
• Addons.thunderbird.net (ATN)

Install from source

Clone the repository:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/tdulcet/Link-Creator.git

Firefox

Follow these instructions to install it in Firefox

Thunderbird

1. Rename the thunderbirdmanifest.json file to manifest.json
2. Follow these instructions to install it in Thunderbird

Chromium/Chrome

1. Download the webextension-polyfill (specifically download the browser-polyfill.js file from here)
2. Rename the chromemanifest.json file to manifest.json
3. Follow these instructions to install it in Chromium/Chrome

Other Extensions

• URL Link (Firefox and Thunderbird)
• Text Link (Firefox)

Contributing

Pull requests welcome! Ideas for contributions:

• Convert to Manifest V3 (MV3)
• Refactor into more modules
• Add a test suite for the regular expressions
• Support more than one top level context menu item (see bug 1294429)
• Support directly opening arbitrary URIs in Thunderbird (see bug 1716200 and bug 1828110)
• Support directly opening data: and other privileged URIs in Firefox (see bug 1317166 and bug 1269456)
• Support directly opening URLs in a private/incognito window in Firefox from Thunderbird (see bug 1828089)
• Support e-mail addresses in the message header and compose window in Thunderbird
• Get the suffixes directly from the browser instead of downloading the PSL (see bug 1315558)
• Support removing tracking parameters from URLs (see bug 1899275)
• Improve the performance
• Sync settings in Thunderbird (see bug 446444)
• Support Firefox for Android (see bug 1595822)
• Localize the add-on