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A site that you’re trying to access is experiencing some problems and is down. How often do you check patiently for the site to load?

You need that site badly, yet it’s down.

Now with the Mr Uptime Firefox extension, you can receive alerts when a particular website is up again and running.

Mr Uptime can be set to alert you when a website is back, or when some errors on the site have disappeared.

Mr Uptime Firefox Addon

The Mr Uptime Toolbar becomes visible only when a website is inaccessible or shows HTTP errors. You can set the time period for how long you want to keep checking the status for a website, make it automatically open in a new tab/window when available, or just get a dialog box notification.

A pretty neat extension for all those Digg-ers as well. You can know when a site wakes up after the Digg effect.

Mr Uptime Firefox extension

Written by admin

August 10th, 2007 at 3:33 pm

Posted in firefox

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  • http://www.rishiraj.info Rishi

    I have been using this plugin from a very long time, very useful when the Web 2.0 logo generator was down! :P

  • http://www.rishiraj.info Rishi

    Oh! I was using an alternate of it, anyways some other alternate for blogs are technorati’s service and host tracker.

  • http://www.sizzledcore.com Haris

    @Rishi: I have been using Host Tracker for a while and have found it a very nice tool for webmasters.

    Thanks a lot Shankar for sharing this. This is really going to help me keep track of my websites. And nice theme.

  • http://www.rahulpatel.in rahul

    thanks for sharing Shankar , will put on note for future .

  • http://www.helloashok.com Ashok Arora

    Useful tool to check downtime of own sites, instead of others site.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    You’re all welcome guys.
    I think this tool will come in handy for checking our own sites, as you’ve all said.

  • http://www.mysites-advisor.com Ken Xu

    I agree with ashok. This extension useful for using for our own blog instead of other. Not worth it.
    :p

  • http://www,techdeep.in/blog dEEPAK

    good one.. But one doubt.. It tell when a site is back.. This means it keeps on polling.. So won’t eat my precious bandwidth?? (I have to worry about this bcoz I have a really slow connection :( )

  • http://amchu.net amachu

    mmm.. thats a useful tip really.. ubuntu-tam.org is down now and hope this can help better :-)

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    @Rahul: Welcome.
    @Ken: I don’t think it’s not worth. In fact it’s more worthy since we could use it for checking our own sites.
    @dEEPAK: This page tells it doesn’t consume much bandwidth:

    Mr Uptime uses less bandwidth than a regular visit to a website since it either just checks the web server response or if a string exists or not on the page. It doesn’t load any images, etc.

    @Amachu: Yep. Thanks for dropping by.

  • http://www.siteguide.us Vijay

    The bandwidth won’t be a factor here. This is because the extension will send a query to the server, and if the server sends a reply, it means that the site is up and running and it informs you.
    It cannot wait till the site loads physically simply because the load times may vary with every page and every site

  • http://www.techzilo.com/ TechZilo

    Cool. Perhaps you should compile such lists, like QOT ;)
    Stumbled.

  • http://www.techzilo.com/ TechZilo

    Just noticed you have a Shoemoney like favicon

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    @Vijay: Thanks for that explanation :)
    @TechZilo: Thanks for the suggestion, but was this post a list ;) ? :D
    and is the favicon really resembling ShoeMoney’s, that looks professional and great, mine’s some unfinished artwork :D

  • http://www.benh.org/techblog Benedict Herold

    A good extension, if you’re trying to access more problematic site ;-) lol