Need help with Mozilla Firefox

[Tran]

Not really for bug-solving type issue, but more like convenience or "missing feature". Take a look at two pictures below:

Internet Explorer:




Mozilla Firefox:



You can see the differences between IE and MF from the circled area, in Internet Explorer if you point your cursor to a website in history, it will show you the exact link or URL to that website (in this case About Google). While in Firefox it will show nothing but the title of the site, you have to click 'Work Offline' on the site name or right-click then left-click "Copy Link Location" and paste it somewhere just to find out what is the exact URL of the website I'm looking.

Now this may sound minor or not bothering to you, but after years of using Firefox I found this to be rather annoying and time-consuming. I mean when I have to view scholarly articles and online essays which has the same title on every of its pages, I can't find out directly in which part of website the certain topic exactly I'm looking for. In Internet Explorer, just a quick viewing with cursor will let me know which one...but too bad, I'd rather stick with Firefox.

Any ideas to solve this issue? Do you know Firefox plug-in to solve this, if there is any?

Thanks for the time, and especially any help...

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi Tran,
Perhaps this great add-on could aid you in your quest for tooltips over bookmarks.

[Tran]

But that's for Bookmark section and not History section, yes? I need one for History

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Sorry, but I can't seem to find anything on the add-ons site. Apologies, yet I don't think there are any. However, perhaps you could make your own using the handy guides on this site. Good luck, cheers.

[Tran]

No need to apologise, Omanes. Thanks for your advise, although it will most likely a no-no for me to get into extension creation stuff, but I might look into it in the future. Cheers!

I welcome folks who knows any solution to this

[drone]

I'm running straightforward Mozilla suite right now, so I can't verify Firefox's response, but in Mozilla, when you move your cursor over a link, the full URL appears on the status bar at the bottom of the browser window. I'm pretty sure Firefox does the same, but maybe not for links in the history frame.