Great Firefox plug-in
Saturday, January 6th, 2007Mozilla Firefox is my browser of choice. As a website developer, I need a browser that displays CSS in a most standards compliant manner. Firefox renders web pages the most properly of all the browsers.
There are some great add-ons and plug-ins for Firefox. One of my latest discoveries is the Cooliris Previews. This little gem has a small footprint - a 15×15 pixel icon in the status bar at the bottom of the browser window. When it is enabled, the icon is a blue checkmark; when it is disabled, the icon is a red X.
What does it do? Hover your cursor over a text link and a preview window of the underlying content pops up. You can see if you really want to go to that link or not. No more back and forth, trying to save the page you’re on. Preview where you might go! And once the preview is up, you can preview links in the preview!
One of the best uses is on a Google/Yahoo search result list. You can customize how and when you want the preview window to pop up.
