Clean up your internet browsers favourites

If you have a large number of internet favourites, they have surely been added over a long period of time. It is possible that some of these are no longer valid links, either because a site has disappeared, or because an address has simply changed, making these links useless.

To know which of your links are still active, you can verify these by hand, but you should know that there are programs that can do this for you. AM-DeadLink for example will be able to help you do this, and it is completely free.

After having downloaded and installed the program, you will need to select the web browser that you want to verify. The program is compatible with the Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera browsers, as well as the Mozilla suite. For browsers other then these, you will be required to input the location where the bookmarks can be found.

In the second picture, a dead link has been added for this example

Once the selection has been made, click on the green button. The program will test all of the links and will indicate those that come back failed. You then simply need to select the bookmarks and delete them with the help of the drop down menu or by pressing the delete key on the keyboard. It is also possible, via the right click menu, to access a bookmarks properties to correct a link that has been erroneously entered.

Perform the same process for each browser before closing the program. Bow your systems favourites will have no dead links. It should also be noted that this program can also detect doubles and look for the icons applicable to your favourites.