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Eradicate Dead Links in Firefox and Internet Explorer
Tags: I don’t use bookmarks nearly as often as I used as most everything I read regularly comes in via an RSS feed in Google Reader. Briefly, RSS is a subscription to a website that contains all it’s published content. I can receive updates without ever visiting the website directly. For most, it has completely changed the web browsing experience. But this article isn’t about RSS at all. The good old fashioned bookmark still has a place in all the browsers – yet none of the browsers handle pruning of dead links. Ironically, because I mainly use RSS, the 404 bookmark links is actually more of a problem for me. As I’m not routinely using the bookmark link it takes months before I notice the site is gone – only when I need it the most. Sadly, over time I’m left with a cluttered mess of broken links.
AM-Deadlink sets out to change this experience. The free software can quickly scan the bookmarks (or favorites) of all the major browsers – Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera – and identify the broken links as well as duplicates. AM-Deadlink can automatically find the IE Favorites location as it’s standard across all systems. However, in my case, I had to tell the software where to find my Firefox bookmarks since it’s pseudo unique to each computer. For example, mine is located at: C:\Users\A Myers\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\lenvubbh.default. Nonetheless, once found the software will remember the location for future runs so it’s hardly a major problem.
AM-Deadlink centers around one task and does it quite well. The software is straightforward, logical, and free. You could do much worse I’m sure.
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Early versions of Netscape did this. It was something like “verify bookmarks” IIRC. It took a long time (dial-up) because it opened every bookmark. Unfortunately I still have dial-up and a 2.3 MB bookmark file
I do miss that feature occasionally though, but I sure wouldn’t mis dial-up.
I do vaguely remember that in Netscape. I do strongly remember the pain that was dial-up though