Modernize your browsing experience
CoolPreviews is a neat Firefox plugin that lets you see what a link leads to without opening another tab or window.
After installation, you'll need to spend a couple of minutes configuring it to your tastes.
You can choose how quickly the CoolPreviews icon will pop up - clicking it opens up the preview window. Alternatively, set the preview to appear as you scroll over links.
You can also toggle the pop up to be locked open or not.
Being able to see what's beyond a link can make browsing faster and more efficient.
For reading news sites, it's particularly good, as you can read stories without leaving the home page. Assuming you have a speedy internet connection, you'll be surprised this isn't an automatic feature of browsers.
If tabs made tab-less browsers seem prehistoric, CoolPreviews does that to tabs.
In testing it seems perfectly stable and doesn't slow down our systems at all.
Some people might just find the pop up annoying, but as it can be configured to appear more or less whenever you want, it should only be as intrusive as you allow.
User reviews about CoolPreviews
by Anonymous
A big loss for web searchers.
Biggest mistake of Firefox was disable and stop supporting this add- on. CoolPreviews saved the user from wasting time opening, closing websites when searching the web. Now it takes more than twice the time to do the same thing. Cons:
can get annoying if person is not used to addon or doesn't compleatly understand how it works More
by Anonymous
A big lost for web searchers.
Biggest mistake of Firefox was disable and stop supporting this add- on. CoolPreviews saved the user from wasting time opening, closing websites when searching the web. Now it takes more than twice the time to do the same thing. Cons:
can get annoying if person is not used to addon or doesn't compleatly understand how it works More
by Anonymous
UPDATE IT AND BRING IT BACK PLEASE!!.
I sooooo wish this add-on would get upgraded to be compatible with current version of Firefox - can't even begin to tell you how much I used it!
Pros:
Being able to look at a page before opeining it
Cons:
Speed with which it worked when a lot of tabs were open
Not updated for current Firefox More
by Anonymous
Extremely usefull app...so disappointed it is no longer supported..
It is the tool I use the most for browsing, period! I don't understand why it will no longer be supported. I've managed to eek out an extra year because somehow I got the code to install it on my new computer...but it will not work at all on the latest version of Firefox (43), so I had to uninstall it and go back to 41. Obviously this can't last forever, so my CoolPreviews days are very limited. Someone needs to step up and give a very comparable alternative. More
by Anonymous
I MISS USING THIS, I REALLY RELIED ON THIS A LOT!.
I miss it I keep forgetting I don't have it anymore Please bring it back!!
Pros: to actual be able to preview when researching.
Cons:
I never had a problem except I can't use it now it's gone! More
by Anonymous
Awesome application but bummed FireFox disabled it..
Fabulous add-on and have not found one like it to replace since FireFox has decided to disable it for not being "signed." Really bummed and NOT cool to not give us the choice of continuing to use it. Please can someone recommend another application just like this one but will work in Vista? More