Are you tired of seeing those tiny bitly shorten  meaningless url’s which never tell where you going to end up?

I found this firefox addon called ‘Long URL Please’ that will decode those shorten tiny url’s in to actual meaningful url’s without your intervention while you browsing.

Currently Long URL Please supports 75 url shortening services that are listed below.

bit.ly, cli.gs, digg.com, is.gd, j.mp, kl.am, su.pr, tinyurl.com, 307.to, adjix.com, b23.ru, bacn.me, bloat.me, budurl.com, clipurl.us, cort.as, dwarfurl.com, ff.im, fff.to, href.in, idek.net, korta.nu, lin.cr, ln-s.net, loopt.us, lost.in, memurl.com, merky.de, migre.me, moourl.com, nanourl.se, ow.ly, peaurl.com, ping.fm, piurl.com, plurl.me, pnt.me, poprl.com, post.ly, rde.me, reallytinyurl.com, redir.ec, retwt.me, rubyurl.com, short.ie, short.to, smallr.com, sn.im, sn.vc, snipr.com, snipurl.com, snurl.com, tiny.cc, tinysong.com, togoto.us, tr.im, tra.kz, trg.li, twurl.cc, twurl.nl, u.mavrev.com, u.nu, ur1.ca, url.az, url.ie, urlx.ie, w34.us, xrl.us, yep.it, zi.ma, zurl.ws, chilp.it, notlong.com, qlnk.net, trim.li

Installation :

To install ‘Long URL Please‘ addon, use firefox to navigate to this mozilla addons page and click ‘Add to Firefox‘ button. You will have to restart your Firefox web browser for the installation to take effect.

Done!

Note : i found a small refreshing  issue with the twitter pages which are appear when you click ‘More‘ button at the bottom of twitter pages. But if you scroll the page once up and down, the decoded version is displayed correctly. I just send them a bug report anyway.

Additional Configurations (optional)

To access the configuration window for the Long URL Please, just goto Tools -> Addons -> click Extenstion button. Then, click Long URL Please from the list of addons installed and click ‘Options‘ button.

* Note : If you have not installed MR Tech toolkit firefox extension, you will see less information about the addon in the installed addons list.

The options window that will appear is pretty  self explanatory i hope.