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Anchors reveal
Reveal the anchors in a webpage
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What is Anchors reveal?
Anchors reveal is a Firefox add-on that allows you to easily reveal the anchors in any webpage with just one click.
Add-on stats
Rating: 4.60
(5)
Creation date: 2014-06-24
Weekly download count: 2
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- activeTab
- storage
- contextMenus
Size: 20.92K
Other platforms
Not available on Chrome
Not available on Edge
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Add-on summary
Reveal in a click the anchors of a webpage.
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User reviews
I've been using Display #Anchors for several years, but I never really liked it that much (I only continued using it because anchor display is such an important feature for me). I found its anchors difficult to see, especially on longer complex web pages. However I recently found out about Anchors Reveal and I decided to try it.
The visibility of the anchors in Anchors Reveal is SO much better than Display #Anchors, and you even have a choice of colours! although it would be nice to have one configurable extra option that lets the user specify a background colour and what text should be used for the anchors (for example if the user wants to replace full anchor names with some different text, or use a symbol instead).
I have now permanently switched to using Anchors Reveal.
There are a couple of issues though:
1. I cannot find any hotkey to toggle Anchors Reveal on and off. The Display #Anchors extension has a hotkey, but annoyingly it is hard-coded, so you cannot change it to a hotkey of your own choosing (and the default hotkey that it uses clashes with a feature in my browser).
It would be extremely helpful if Anchors Reveal added an option for a hotkey (user-specified) to allow toggling anchors on and off from the keyboard.
2. The Anchors Reveal toolbar button does not visually indicate whether anchors are currently off or on. It would be better if the toolbar button had 2 different states / icons to reflect the current anchor display status.
This is useful when you are on a web page with no anchors, otherwise you can get confused thinking that Anchors Reveal is not switched on or is not working (when in fact it IS on, it's just that the web page has no anchors to display). This confusion is removed if you can see from the toolbar button that anchors are on, even if there are no anchors shown on the current web page.
This extension has not been updated for a while (because it mostly already does what it needs to) but I do hope that the developer will consider adding the features that I suggested above (especially the user-configurable hotkey).
by Quisquose, 2024-03-05
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Anchors reveal is safe to use. It does not request any sensitive permissions.
Risk likelihood
Anchors reveal is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.
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