This is a very cool extension for Firefox. It opens a preview window if you move over a link and then over this little blue icon that pops up. I’ve been playing with it and I think it will be quite useful.
Tuesday December 19, 2006
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That’s also how ask.com works. I like it.
Comment by Donna — Wednesday December 20, 2006 @ 5:40 pm
Yeah it is a lot like ask.com except this is always active so it works on any page.
Comment by Don — Wednesday December 20, 2006 @ 7:51 pm
I installed it. Very cool!
Comment by Donna — Wednesday December 20, 2006 @ 8:59 pm
I’m also giving it a try. It’s cool, but I’m not sure that it is much better than just opening the link with the middle button in a new tab. Am I missing something?
Comment by Daryl — Thursday December 21, 2006 @ 2:52 pm
It’s not a “lot better” but I like the way you can easily pop up the preview/new window. You can also resize the preview window. It would be better if when you resized the window if the content shrank or grew to fill it.
Comment by Don — Thursday December 21, 2006 @ 4:25 pm
I think it’s great to just have a peek at the new page and see if it’s worthwhile opening a new tab. It has that little icon at the top to send the link to a tab if you really want it open. At my work, they don’t update the intranet homepage very often, and I’ve been clicking on some of the announcement links to see if they are updated or the same stuff they told us last week.
I’m with you, Don. Resizing the whole thing would be great. You should leave a comment for the Mozilla addon team suggesting that.
Comment by Donna — Thursday December 21, 2006 @ 5:23 pm