Freeware Directory

Freeware - Web Browsers Tools - Links and URLs

This utility reads all information from the history file on your computer, and displays the list of all URLs that you have visited with Internet Explorer browser in the last few days. It also allows you to select one or more URL addresses, and then remove them from the history file or save them into a text, HTML or XML file. You can also view the visited URL list of other user profiles on your computer or a remote computer, as long as you have permission to access the history folder. Useful for retrieving links that you forgot to save OR for checking that your security setting/program "clear history" function is actually working!

AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser-Bookmarks, if a Bookmark has become unavailable you can delete it from your Browser. Additionally you can download/update the FavIcons of all your Favorites from the Browsers Internet Explorer and Opera. AM-Deadlink checks Bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla and Netscape.

Links2Tray is a utility that resides in the system tray (near the clock). It displays a menu combining Internet Explorer's Favorites, Netscape's Bookmarks, and Opera's Hotlist links. You can load any link's Web page in either Internet Explorer, Netscape, or Opera, if the browser isn't running Links2Tray will launch it for you. The fully configurable "Dump Popup Windows" feature automatically closes popup windows in Internet Explorer 4 or higher.

Create a portable backup of your Internet Explorer favorites, with a simple click save all of your links to a single HTML page.

WebJump allows the user to enter information about webmail accounts, and then generates a frame based customizable document which allows one-button access to check email. Simple but practical for those with lots of webmail accounts.

Capture, collect, protect with password the urls of open web pages in Explorer and Netscape. Utility for all web surfers, the list of grabbed urls and also your password is encrypted.

IndieToolbar is a free internet utility that allows users of any browser to take advantage of the comprehensive internet toolbar icons from the Alexander Wilson Studios collection, (hundreds to choose from!) previously only available for Internet Explorer. IndieToolbar is vertical, freestanding, and customizeable, and it makes no alterations to the user's system or browser.

How many password-protected sites do you go to and can you remember all the passwords you use, or do you end up using the same password everywhere? Password Scrambler is an IE 4+ add-on that allows you to automatically present unique passwords to the sites you visit, generated from a unique master password you choose. It achieves this by "scrambling" your password for every site you visit so that each site gets a unique, secure, hard to guess password, while you only remember one!

Changeit is a little program that will allow you to change the Internet Explorer start page and customize the title bar message to what ever you so choose. If you want to brand your name on the title bar, just let Changeit automaticaly do that for you. Changeit also has a time sync function to sync your PC time to a list of time servers out on the internet.

The Favorite Start Page is a single, dynamic HTML file which you can store on your hard disk. This HTML file can both import and export your Internet Explorer bookmarks (Favorites). You can also use it to back up or transfer your bookmarks in a single file or share them on the internet. You can download or create CSS skins to control how the page looks. Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher is required to import or export bookmarks, but the resulting HTML file can be viewed with most browsers.

FastNet99 is a network utility that will speed up your web browser every time you want to connect to a web site on the Internet, by avoiding time consuming DNS lookups. It provides all the tools you need to help diagnose network problems and get information about users, hosts and networks on the Internet or on your Intranet. It combines DNS Lookup, Ping, TraceRoute, WhoIs, Finger, Time Synchronizer, Keep Alive, Net Launcher and more.

This is a slick little program that saves you time as well as mouse clicks if you check a number of websites regularly. It opens those pages in separate windows with one click. Organize your Favorites folder so that the websites you access routinely are listed in a MaxiBrowse subfolder within your Favorites folder but don't put too many in there or you'll have dozens of browser windows open!

VisitURL is designed to help maintain a handy (as in: at hand) list of URLs that you intend to visit. For instance, if a friend sends you an email recommending that a particular URL, Visit is a good place to store the URL until you are ready to launch your browser and go surfing. If you copy the URL to clipboard, Visit will automatically intercept it and save to its database. If you copy several URLs at once, Visit will get all of them. (You may also add URLs manually or directly from an open browser window.) If you copy the URL with some text around it, Visit will optionally treat that text as a description for the URL you copied. VisitURL is not a fully-fledged bookmark manager, replacement for Netscape's bookmark file or Internet Explorer's Favorites and it does not organize bookmarks into categories.

Booky for Windows is a small utility for synchronizing bookmarks. It is capable of converting the Internet Explorer Favorites to a Hotlist that is used by the Opera browser or to a Bookmarks file that is used by the Netscape browser.

Create your own, constantly updating start page "homepage" for your browser! Enter reminders, things to do, etc, into a simple form and links will be automatically placed on your homepage which is stored on your own system. Never again will you forget to pay a bill online or send that important email.

FavToHtml is a Windows utility that makes it easy to create, from your MS Internet Explorer favorites, a page of links to add to your web site, keep on your computer, keep on disk, or to send to friends. FavToHtml is really easy to use because of its wizard-like interface. Just tell the program what you want your page to look like and in a few seconds you'll have your favorite links page! I developed FavToHtml when MS Internet Explorer was at its 3rd release, now it's at its 6th and I have had reports of incompatibilities, please give it a try and then send me some feedback.

Bookmark Wizard is little freeware program with simple wizard-like interface, that generates HTML file with all your links in your Internet Favorites folder. The links in generated page are grouped and sorted in ascending order like they are in your favorites folder. You can use the result file for Netscape Navigator bookmarks, or just put it up on your web page as your links page. You can specify colors for links and backgrounds, title, caption etc for your page.

EditURLs lets you edit the drop-down URL address list in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x thru 6.x. The easy-to-use interface displays all the current addresses, enabling you to save the list for future recall, clear the list completely, and edit or delete individual URLs.

Takes the Netscape or Explorer bookmarks and formats them as an HTML report. The report has an explorer like interface. The browser screen is divided into two frames. the Left pane shows the categories only. When you click onto one item in the left pane, the bookmarks for that category appear in the right pane. Can also produce a list of recently added links/recently visited links.

We all have a zillion bookmarks; however, we only have a few web sites that we visit everyday. If you are tired of sorting through your bookmarks to find those sites, this program is for you. DailyRotation is a tray-based program that puts all your favorite sites just one click away. Left-clicking the DailyRotation icon loads your next favorite web site onto your screen. Right-clicking lets you add or delete URLs. Easy! And free!

Active Favorites (AFAVOR) - simple and easy to use tool that allows you to very quickly access Internet Explorer Favorites (bookmarks). When AFAVOR is running, an accurate miniature icon appears on the taskbar on the end opposite the Start button. When you click it with the left mouse button, it displays the full list of your bookmarks.

Xteq URL Bandit is a little program that monitors your clipboard and catches all URLs it finds. These URL are saved so you can later easily access them and don't lose them when you turn your computer off. Also, URL Bandit will analyze the entire text you copy to the clipboard and extract all URLs. It will save you a lot of time especially if you receive a lot of eZines and newsletter which are almost always full of URLs.

Blink is the easiest way to save, organize, and share information on the Web. Users can create a free, secure Web account to which one can upload existing bookmarks, add new ones, and share links with others. Powerful tools also enable highly effective searching of the database of over 5.5 million links.

URL Organizer 1 is a small, fast, simple utility for storing and organizing large collections of URLs (up to 2,000 per list). Each URL is no more than three mouse clicks away, plus there's a quick search facility. It works with all the popular web browsers.

LinkPilot is a convenient, easy-to-use, free distributed Web browser companion that allows building collections of graphic bookmarks, or imagelinks. Imagelinks are created simply by outlining any area of a Web page with the mouse. Clicking on an imagelink will open the corresponding page in the Web browser. No longer will users have to look for a needed bookmark among faceless URL shortcuts. With LinkPilot, the bookmark collection appears as an album of colorful, easily recognizable pictures. The new tool is fully compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.

FREE bookmark utility with TOP World Wide Web Collectibles Resources (title, www address, category, subcategory, keywords, description, ..). Features: 1.Notebook-like interface. 2.Easy-to-use. 3.Very fast and small. 4.Fast search. 5.Flexible filters. 6.Print reports. 7.Create html files. 8.Integrated with browsers. 9.Add/Update resources with a click on the button. 10.Unlimited number of entries and ieBooks.