Bookmarks Checker

11-12-2010, 16:39

Hi,

I've found a Forefox add-on called CheckPlaces which goes through your bookmarks in order to find sites that no longer exist.

Problem is that it looks at say http://www.cableforum.co.uk/index.html and finds that the absolute page does not exist but obviously http://www.cableforum.co.uk does.

Are there any good tools which will weed these out and give correct results?

Peter_ · 11-12-2010, 17:14

If you click this link you will find the companion tool to CheckPlaces which is supposed to do the things that you want.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...lup=&advanced=

11-12-2010, 17:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by Masque

If you click this link you will find the companion tool to CheckPlaces which is supposed to do the things that you want.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...lup=&advanced=

Is that:

Bookmark Link Checker Minus

Says: Not available for Firefox 3.6.13

Peter_ · 11-12-2010, 20:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by LSainsbury

Is that:

Bookmark Link Checker Minus

Says: Not available for Firefox 3.6.13

I downloaded the BookmarksChecker and then the link checker and it worked but I do have Nightly Tester Tools in my browser which should not work with the latest version of Firefox but because it was already installed it works.

I also have Xmarks installed which allows all my bookmarks to be saved in the cloud and i can then download them onto any computer which is handy if you have a specific tool in your bookmarks that you need to use at another address.

http://www.xmarks.com/

**Paul** · 11-12-2010, 20:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by LSainsbury

Problem is that it looks at say http://www.cableforum.co.uk/index.html and finds that the absolute page does not exist

Which is correct, why do you have a bookmark to a page that doesnt exist ?

12-12-2010, 11:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul M

Which is correct, why do you have a bookmark to a page that doesnt exist ?

Paul: I was using this as an example - I could have said something like:

http://www.fredbloggsrules.com/welcome.htm

I don't have a bookmark for CF like that - it was an example - sorry for the confusion!

BTW - I have over 3000+ bookmarks and I'm trying to clear out all the dead pages. Some of the sites may exist but the I may have direct url to a page at the time which has since been removed. That's what I'm trying to get rid of.

Peter_ · 12-12-2010, 14:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by LSainsbury

Paul: I was using this as an example - I could have said something like:

http://www.fredbloggsrules.com/welcome.htm

I don't have a bookmark for CF like that - it was an example - sorry for the confusion!

BTW - I have over 3000+ bookmarks and I'm trying to clear out all the dead pages. Some of the sites may exist but the I may have direct url to a page at the time which has since been removed. That's what I'm trying to get rid of.

At least I only have 174 bookmarks.