Is there a Firefox addon to show unshortened URLs in a tooltip?

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Published on 2010-05-11T17:32:51Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 17:44 UTC
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I need a FF addon to do something like Unshorten and present the real URL in a tooltip. The addon should be FF3.6 compatible. Does anyone know if there is such an addon out there?

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