AM-DeadLink 4.1

Rated 50/50 by fatray at Jan 28, 2008

I've been using this for years. It's great, yes you should use it.

Rated 50/50 by Hall9000 at Jan 28, 2008

Just a few days ago I had to use AM-DeadLink because all the boomark icons were messed up for some reason or an other. Tookk a few minutes to get them all back with it. Just for that reason alone is more than enough to get a 5 from me. The rest of the other functions also make it get a five. I only have one thing I would like to see added. Instead of that "fruit icon" they use to show each link having had their icons updated, how about using the actual icon for those links?

Rated 50/50 by terracesider at Jan 29, 2008

Excellent program which has enabled me to quickly and painlessly (but carefully) clear out about 300 multiple bookmarks in under 15 minutes.

Rated 50/50 by pforbes at Jun 17, 2008

Excellent. IMO this version works faster.

Rated 50/50 by F1Racer at Jun 17, 2008

Been using this program for some time now. It's simply the biz.

Rated 40/50 by Undesired Username at Jul 15, 2008

Anxiously awaiting Firefox 3.0 support...

Rated 50/50 by Rafel at Jul 15, 2008

A great program, little and portable. Five stars.

Rated 40/50 by wcforan at Aug 4, 2008

"Breezes through old, dead links" Fairly easy to use, quick, and efficient There's a small learning curve and some icons are not readily obvious

Rated 50/50 by terryjcesq at Aug 5, 2008

"does what it says" easy to use and removes the duplicated links in your bookmarks ******

Rated 50/50 by neher5 at Aug 18, 2008

"Get rid of outdated bookmarks and duplicate favorites" Great tool for maintaining your collection of web addresses which you intend to revisit at some point. There are two main planks, finding duplicate bookmarks / favorites in your collection, and if you use more than one browser - i.e. firefox and internet explorer, finding and deleting the duplicates between those two collections. The second plank is checking that the pages are still in existence. You can set tthe number of times to try, and select the failed attempts for another change some hours later. This works well. Weak point is that Firefox 3 uses a different approach to bookmarks, and that AM deadlink is not yet able to write the bookmarks back as it does with Opera and Internet Explorer, and used to d wit hFirefox in incarnation 2. There are some hints in the help file how to get around this, but for me it would help if there was a clear seven-step plan do this - now do that, which includes renaming the existing file so you can rename it back if the result is not satisfactory.

Rated 40/50 by kscheinblum at Oct 14, 2008

"Very useful favorite URL tool" Fast, updates/add site icons (good if you are a visual person), identifies URLs are are redirected & redirection methodology; OK job of finding duplicate favorites, built in browser makes verification easy; edit URL & title info without leaving app reports a few false negative URLs; that is URLs it cannot reach that are valid. Sorting options could be better. A great application if you have a lot of favorites. Quickly identify dead links and identify URLs that redirect you to another site or page, a good security feature. One of the best freeware programs. Works with IE, Firefox, & Opera.

Rated 40/50 by methadvocate at Oct 30, 2008

Handles a huge number of bookmarks-my own collection has 5 different sets of bookmarks, the smallest file having approximately 840 bookmarks. The program is easy to use no matter which browser. It's a breeze to sort, check, fix, and convert links. Must Individually edit the "file not found" links, instead of the program automatically checking the main link to the root URL. I used an old version of this program many years ago and did not like it because of difficulty of use. They have made this program extremely user-friendly with a lot of easy AND advanced options. I have made this my only bookmark manager program and would recommend AM-DeadLink 3.3 software to anyone at any technical user level.

Rated 20/50 by ghinfla at Mar 8, 2009

"Doesn't work with Firefox" Free. Fine for Explorer Not workable with Firefox

Rated 30/50 by jayc55 at Apr 17, 2009

"quite good" covers most everything some homework required take some time to read the intro! then it works well

Rated 40/50 by embrya at May 31, 2009

"I've loved this product for many years" Great utility for background checking of bookmarks. Doesn't always correctly report status of links. That being said it does have @ a 99% success rate so i'm not too upset about that. Great, small utility for checking bookmarks!

Rated 40/50 by skaizun at Aug 29, 2009

It was pretty much automatic, with only subtle nuances to figure out. I used it only on IE 7.0, so far, but that's all I really need. It separates errors according to the web page result (i.e., 404 (not found), etc), which is a nice touch. It indicated some bookmarks as having been redirected, but the result URL matched the bookmark, so I presume that the webpage defaulted to something without changing the URL (minor issue). It has a nice "change current bookmark to currently opened page's URL" (which it does in its own browser, but can be opened to a new window), but it would have been nicer if the program had an option to "change all" or "change selected" to whatever it found, automatically, rather than having to do so manually, which can be pretty tedious with the over 900 bookmarks that I have, at least 25% of which had something wrong with them. Having said that, I eliminated many dead URLs (web searches can always find something similar, when I need it), and updated a lot, which, I probably wouldn't have noticed because I hadn't accessed them in a while, but it's nice to know that they're up-to-date. Netscape 4.5 had a similar functionality, but it was much slower and didn't give reasons for it not finding the bookmarks. This is a very nice utility, which I'll probably only use every other year or so, but it's nice to know that it works as advertised!

Rated 50/50 by zlugx at Oct 18, 2009

"Wow, that was easy." Nice, free, quick little program that gets the job done fast. I was able to check all the 404's before deleting and it was 100% on. Nice job! Not really a con, per se, since the Firefox 3 workaround is given, but a direct-edit option for Firefox would be nice. Does one thing, and does it really well. And for free to boot!

Rated 20/50 by Vanillaman at Nov 3, 2009

"Does not work with Mozilla Freezefox" It has problems with Freezefox complicated, bloated and time consuming bookmarking system. However, it works really well with the much simpler IE Favourites system and the other browsers. As usual Mozilla Freezefox makes program difficult to use, only because they want you to use their own. Ok with other browsers, but not Firefox.

Rated 20/50 by SineDubio at Nov 13, 2009

Very intuative interface Nice dublicate sorting function Does not currently work with Google Chrome Can work directly with (non-Chrome) browsers or bookmark files directly That is great but HTML-files are not supported Slow Wanted to sort out dublicates from years of bookmarking history Since AM-Deadlink does not support Chrome, I had to export it into a HTML file (no other file options exists) Then AM-Deadlink cannot work with the file directly so I had to import that in IE7 NOW I could open AM-Deadlink and sort out duplicates. There was also a great option to mark all duplicates but one, so to easy erase them. But unfortunately, this operation takes time (approx. 5-6 sek per hundred deletes) so when I tried to do this with all at one (3500 bookmarks total) the process locked. After have sortet all duplicates by hand, helped by the finding duplicates function, the IE7 exported bookmark file now won't import in Chrome...

Rated 30/50 by Antichrist at Dec 1, 2009

Still no Firefox 3 support! I did find a Firefox addon finally, CheckPlaces ( http://www.andyhalford.com/checkplaces/ ), that has most of the functionality though, such as restoring favicons, checking for duplicates and dead links. So I've switched to that and I'm happy with it.