CoolPreviews by cooliris, my latest extension addition

I go through cycles of Firefox extension experimentation. Normally, I have 4 or 5 profiles setup, each with different sets of extensions targeting anything from alternate workflows to multiple ways of implementing userscripts for some of my favorite sites. This morning I took a quick look at the “Get Add-ons” tab for the first time in months and saw CoolPreviews listed. I guess I’ve been living under a rock considering Lifehacker covered it nearly 3 years ago.

I ordinarily open way too many tabs. I see a link that I might be interested in, I control/command-click it to open in the background and continue on the current page. Before long, I may have dozens of tabs that need follow-up. CoolPreviews will eliminate many of those by providing the smoothest implementation I’ve seen of popping up an embedded, scrollable window of any given link. A quick mouse over, scan and I can move on or continue with my ingrained research path.

That’s not all the extension accomplishes. You can create stacks of sites to step through as well as do preview searches of highlighted text at any number of differ sites.

CoolPreviews during post edit

So, for those of you that haven’t seen it, consider taking a look.