Little trick on Firefox to know if links are nofollow

This may help some of you. I was looking for a way for Firefox to display the nofollow links in a way I would see them without having to look at the source code.

There are a couple of extensions that can do seomething similar, like SEOQuake but I didn't like the way it strikes the nofollow links.

Then I found that little trick:

1) Find your Firefox profile folder. On Windows it will be something like:
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\XXXXX.default\

2) In this profile folder, there is a subfolder "chrome". Create a file named "userContent.css" in this "chrome" folder if it doesn't already exist.

3) Put this in "userContent.css":

a[rel="nofollow"], a[rel="external nofollow"]
{
    border-bottom:solid 2px red !important;
}

Code (markup):

4) Restart Firefox.


Now nofollow links will be underlined with a red line! Note that you can use any CSS you want to customized the look of the nofollow links.

Hope this helps!

 

This is pretty cool.. thanks for the info.

 

Hmm.. looks cool.. Anyone tried it? I go with SearchStatus. Same results and then some.

 

Whoa, that's a pretty good idea actually. Not sure if it works, but it sounds like it does.

 

any chance of a similar trick for IE?

 

i will try this, will post the results soon .

newcity

 

Great suggestion. Thanks

 

it works. tricks for IE please

 

There is also a FireFox plugin that makes nofollow links red.

 

Of course it works! :-P

The advantage of this trick over a extension is that you can use any CSS you want to customize the nofollow links.


The trick for IE is to switch for a better browser! (Sorry, I couldn't resist!)

 

You are wonderful. Great Great Idea indeed, I was using Search status plugin for finding the nofollow links, it is a total loser, don't use it at all. It doesnt highlight most of the nofollow links, This trick is pretty cool. In fact I know of CSS but never thought about tweaking Firefox. Good work, TATA.

Lenin