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AM-DeadLink scans your browser bookmark file for dead links or duplicate links. Using this program is much faster and easier than manually checking all of your bookmarks. If you have a very large collection of bookmarks, and some of them are rarely visited, then removing links that are "dead" makes the resultant smaller collection of valid bookmarks easier to navigate. After running this on my bookmarks, I now have a much leaner set of favorites that are easier to find, and the peace of mind knowing that all the links actually work. In addition, you can download/update FavIcons for Internet Explorer and Opera bookmarks. AM -Deadlink now has full unicode support, and supports bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Firefox 3+, Opera 10, and Chrome. It will also check HTML files, and URLs from tab delimited and comma separated text files. AM-Deadlink also supports command-line switches to check links in HTML files (eg. from within a HTML File editor) |
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Hello
There are many other utilities like this one.
I think the other famous one is ckeckplaces
Checkplaces is fine, although it is only of any use with firefox. No joy for other browsers.
I find it will only delete one link at a time from opera 11.01 .Fine with ff,iex and ch
AM-Deadlink 4.1 now supports Firefox 3.x bookmark format. The program also checks links a lot faster now.
Version 4.0 of AM-Deadlink has been released. Now has full Unicode support. Also supports Google Chrome now :).
Is there freeware to migrate/sync bookmarks between different browsers (Firefox. IE, Opera) used on the same computer?
Have a look at Transmute : www.gettransmute.com
Anupam Shriwatri
I am also using Firefox/3.0.5 and if works fine, I also have IE6, and Opera. It checked on all and was able to fined few duplicate file.
Exactly what I needed! I had over 2500 bookmarks. This program found many duplicates and dead links, and I was able to delete about 700 of them!! Thanks for the review!
Be careful with so called "dead" links. I have found that sometimes a website may block your IP address, or you may be using one that was blocked previously, resulting in you being unable to access the site. You should always verify that it is truly dead with a proxy server online.
Also, sometimes it happens that a site will time out, or fail to load due to large numbers of people connecting.
At times, they may be down for maintenance. Give them a month or so & try again to be sure they are truly dead!
@KrinkleKrunk- just tested and yes, it has a preview box that list all your bookmarks and shows which one is ok, 404, or redirected. Has a built in browser so you can double check links. I have to say, this is the best freeware find in a while. I used it on my Opera and had no problems. - PALADIN
Yes it does KK.
I sent the following on this program to Gizmo back in Feb.
I have tried a lot of variations of these products and this one stands out for functionality and operation. It runs in the background, checking my favorites with no noticeable impact on other operations. You can open bad pages in the generated list directly in the built-in IE browser. You can also click the red arrow to open the link in your default browser (FF for me). There are right-click functions for changing the URL, deleting it and saving it, among other functions. All-in-all, a worthy program for everyone to have and run.
I wonder if the program informs you of what links are dead before removing them?
It certainly does. It's very safe to use.
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