CNET Editors' review
If you have too many links to look through, the CoolPreviews browser extension for Firefox, IE, and Safari might be what you're looking for. It opens a preview window to any link you mouse over when you point your cursor to an individual search result. A small, translucent blue box appears. Mouse over that and CoolPreviews pops up a floating window with that link's contents.
The extension comes with many useful options. It allows the user to change the size of the pop-up window, e-mail the previewed link to a friend, and "stack" the link, which is CoolPreviews-speak for temporary bookmarking. You can prefetch pages into memory, which is helpful if you lack a broadband connection. By clicking on a link in the preview pane, it opens in the same pane, so there's no messy jumping around. Other features include changing the CoolPreviews activator from a mouse-over link to a click or adding a Control key into the mix to avoid accidental previews.
Attractive to anyone who spends considerable time parsing through search results and uncomplicated to use, CoolPreviews should have a broad appeal to those who want to cut down on needless page loading.
Publisher's Description
From Cooliris:
CoolPreviews (formerly Cooliris Previews) eliminates your hassle of having to click back and forth between your searches and the results pages, and thus losing context of what you're searching for. With CoolPreviews, you can conveniently preview links on any Web site, including Craigslist, eBay, Google, and Google Images. You won't have to open every single page. Just mouse-over any link or image thumbnail and you'll be able to preview the underlying Web page or picture without clicking.
This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
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"Does not work for me."
Version: CoolPreviews for Internet Explorer 1.0
Pros
No pros at all.
Cons
Does not work.
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"Something's Fishy"
Version: CoolPreviews for Internet Explorer 1.0
Pros
Amazing and truly wonderful in Firefox; one of my favorite FF add-ons
Cons
Sadly, doesn't work for Internet Explorer
Summary
I don't know if it actually works. It changed my scripting settings to something I wasn't comfortable with. It wouldn't run without the modified settings, even though I do have other extensions that (sensibly) don't require you to change security settings to allow them to run. In the end, I just uninstalled it. I've had bad experiences with Cooliris and my graphics card, and I just don't feel like going through another fiasco from a related product. Plus, I would rather not pull an obvious stupid.
Annoyingly enough, it tried to pass itself off as Cooliris in the downloader. Perhaps I should have taken a hint there. -
"loads but dose not seem to work in I.E.7"
Version: CoolPreviews for Internet Explorer 1.0
Pros
works great with ff.
Cons
dosen't work.
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"Be careful here"
Version: CoolPreviews for Internet Explorer 1.0
Pros
I didn't run the program **see below**
Cons
Installation changes IE security setting to allow a script to run. This causes IE to (freak out) display a warning page and banner. It is up to you if you want to risk it, but I will not...
Summary
It sounds like it might be a useful tool, but it needs to run without changing the IE security settings.
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"Keylogger!"
Version: CoolPreviews for Internet Explorer 1.0
Pros
No pros, didn't even work.
Cons
Downloaded, no EULA, then I opened up IE and got a blank about:SecurityAdvisor page. Gave me Mom Knows Best keylogger.
Summary
Don't waste your time, just spyware. Wake up CNET.
You cannot be serious. Internet Explorer is not a keylogger you moron. It's been around for ages and is one of the first browsers there was. You even say you use IE in your other post so don't contradict yourself. And what does zonealarm know.
Updated on Dec 7, 2008
