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- Price: Free
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- Date added: September 16, 2008
- Total Downloads: 1,132
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
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.
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Version: CoolPreviews for Internet Explorer 1.0
"loads but dose not seem to work in I.E.7"
Pros: works great with ff.
Cons: dosen't work.
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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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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... read more >>
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