Idea: URL de-bloater

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Lord Badminton of Yorkshire

Idea: URL de-bloater

Post by Lord Badminton of Yorkshire »

I have an idea for a Firefox extension. It would remove unnecessary characters from URLs on sites like Amazon, IMDb and so on. I have no knowledge of making add-ons or intention of making this add-on, but in case someone wants to make it that would be very nice.
Either way, this thread will be a discussion about if such an add-on would be useful, on what sites it would be useful and so on. I would certainly use it, but I am a perfectionist, so I'm not sure if such an extension would have a broader user base.


Examples (the characters that would be removed are bold:
http://www.amazon.com/[i]Ubisoft-41064F ... 1-Download[/i]/dp/B0088Q8MXA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416395264&sr=8-1&keywords=Far+Cry+3+PC (The characters marked out in italic could also be removed with a specific option enabled. That option would be disabled by default.)
Other Amazon sites
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144117/[b]?ref_=nv_sr_1[/b]
http://www.imdb.com/[b]?ref_=nv_home[/b]
https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefo ... src=search
https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefo ... serprofile[/b]
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Game-B ... 3cec2a16df[/b]
http://www.ebay.com/usr/skipjenn8u5w[b] ... 7675.l2559[/b]
http://www.ebay.com/sch/triplaa/m.html[ ... pg=&_from=[/b]
http://stores.ebay.com/MILLECOSE/Game-B ... 34.c0.m322[/b]
http://stores.ebay.com/Gamer-Heaven/Gam ... 34.c0.m322[/b]
vBulletin forums, for example: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?[ ... c3ee5be7a2&[/b]t=168539&page=77[/b]
Lord Badminton of Yorkshire

Re: Idea: URL de-bloater

Post by Lord Badminton of Yorkshire »

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https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/[b]?src=search[/b]
Lord Badminton of Yorkshire

Re: Idea: URL de-bloater

Post by Lord Badminton of Yorkshire »

Thanks!
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