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Thoughts of a Piece of Dust: Pimping Your Firefox Part IV: Previewing Links Without Leaving Your Page

Friday, April 20, 2007

Pimping Your Firefox Part IV: Previewing Links Without Leaving Your Page

Have you ever been surfing the web and wanted to see a link before you clicked on it and navigated away from the page your on? If so, I've got a great Firefox extension for you: Cooliris previews.

This nifty program, once installed (remember, you need Firefox for this!), will give you a nice blue and green square whenever your mouse rolls over a link. Roll your mouse over that small square and a the page will show in a small box. If you want to continue to that page, you merely have to click the link. If you don't want to see it, move your mouse away and it will disappear in a few seconds, or you can click the red "X" at the top of the preview and it will close.

Not that complex, but a useful extension nonetheless.

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