[nzlug] Web-browser feature?

[Daniel Lawson]

>
> Is there such a browser feature that opens a mini-preview of the web
> page at the other end of the link when you hover the cursor over the
> link?
>
> Like when you are browsing images in Konqueror/whatever, and you can
> get mini-previews of each image that pop up if you hover over the
> image for a half-second?
>
> The idea that you could see if the page at the other end is going to
> take years to load, or looks like it would contain the information you
> are after, rather than meaningless images, or vice-versa - so you can
> choose whether or not you want to open that page, before you open it...

I was reading
http://www.techtree.com/India/Guides/The_Best_of_Firefox_Extensions/551-78309-584.html
and saw they mentioned cooliris, which does basically what you talk
about above.

You hover over a link, then move the mouse to point at the cooliris icon
which appears next to the link, and a new overlay is created with the
webpage in it. Just installed it and it seems to work pretty well



http://www.cooliris.com/Site/tutorial-firefox.html