Utility to find & remove dead links?

Hello.
I'm looking for a (preferably free) utility to find & remove dead links from my bookmarks. It'd be great it if could clean up my Firefox links as well.
Anyone know where to get such a tool?
Cheers,
ALF

You're welcome Anthony. I'll post back if I come across something. As I posted, if Bookmarks are the same for your browsers, it's just as easy to clean up a set in Safari, then export the new file to the other browsers. Also, good to make a duplicate copy of the Bookmarks.plist file in your Safari Folder (User Library) before running Prariefire. Just in case of a problem.
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here's one, then
http://www.apple.com/deadlink
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_link and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_404
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Dead links when using Safari.

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