Check your bookmarks for dead links with Check Places
by Ken on Apr.03, 2010, under General, O.S.S., Tech
I have thousands of bookmarks which I backup to my computer, external drives and the cloud using several methods, Weave, an addon for Firefox from Mozilla Labs, Google, Foxmarks, and a couple other’s that I can’t remember at the moment.
One thing I have been unable to do until now is check if they are all still valid, which by hand, would takes hours and hours. I did a quick Google search to see if someone had come up with a solution to this problem before me and the answer is YES they have. It’s called Check Places found here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10897 an addon for Firefox. It does require some time to weed out the old links and possible give you a chance to look for new current links to replace the old ones. It certainly will take less time than checking them all by hand. Give it a shot and let me know what you think.
