Our URL UNshortener has been building pace, now turning all manner of short URLs back in to long ones again.
Having used (and loved!) the ShortenURL add-on for Firefox, we had an idea for a Firefox Add-on (or a Google Chrome Extension) that could utilise the API services provided by http://UNfwd4.me
However, knowing nothing about Firefox Add-ons or Chrome Extensions, we have no idea where to even start on building such an add-on. Web sites and services we can code, browser extensions we can't.
This is where you come in!
We would be very interested in anyone who could develop a very simple add-on for Firefox that could UNshorten any web address that your mouse simply hovered over, using the http://UNfwd4.me API. For example, if you were viewing a Twitter or Facebook page and came across a URL which had been shortened, simply hovering your mouse over the short URL would send an API request in the background to http://UNfwd4.me and then could produce a small and neat popup (or small window) that would reveal the long URL / real destination of the short URL that you were looking at (click to enlarge), eg:
Hopefully this makes some kind of sense!
So, if you develop (or if you know anyone who develops) Firefox Add-ons or Google Chrome Extensions, please, get in touch, we'd love to talk!
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