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Use firefox browser to do ping and tracert

The title says it all, you can run ping and traceroute in your internet browser. It’s can be handy for sys admin to do their troubleshooting without the need to open a terminal/command prompt.

Steps

1. Open up your firefox browser.

2. Bookmark these 2 links and put a “ping” & “tracert” keyword for each.

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=ping&host=%s

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=trace&host=%s

3. To create a keyword for your bookmark,  if you are using firefox, hit <Ctrl> + <B> then search for the 2 URL’s that you have added just now. When you found it, right click and choose “Properties” on it and you will see something like this

5. After clicking “Properties”, a window will pop up and from there you can see there is a “Keyword” field. So just enter the keyword accordingly.

• “ping” keyword for bookmark http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=ping&host=%s
• “tracert” keyword for bookmark http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=trace&host=%s

Example:

4. Ok, you are all set. Now try to type “ping www.google.com” or “tracert www.google.com” without the double quote on your browser URL address bar

Example:

5. See, the ping/tracert result is showing in the browser

Quite handy isn’t it.