Personally, I prefer the mouse-hovering option to see where a link points to - it reduces the information thrown at me, but the information is still there if I'm interested in it.

A good browser has a click combination to open a link in a new window, for example, IE has Shift-Click to open any link in a new window. I assume that Netscape has a similar feature (and no, it's NOT Shift-Click of course).

For the link harvester, you could either write a small Perl script you pass the node ID to (HTML::LinkExtor comes to mind), or you could use for example the Internet Explorer Power Tweaks, which have some small JavaScript bookmarklet that opens up a new window with all links collected. I also here assume that something similar is also available for Netscape, but this could also be written in a line of JavaScript, and added as a favourite to your bookmarks.

Of course, none of these methods necessates a change in the engine, but this makes it also much more likely that you'll see those features implemented :-)

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web
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