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Apple has really been successful with their Cover Flow representation of album covers, and with their latest Leopard operating system they even added a Cover Flow view for browsing files. This has to leave you wondering why you’re not able to browse your bookmarks in a similar fashion?
Well, thanks to this new Firefox extension (install it here) you can. As you visit websites that you’ve saved as bookmarks the extension will create a small JPG snapshot (about 30KB in size) that will be used when you open up your Bookmark Manager. In the Bookmark Manager you’ll see a Cover Flow-like interface for flipping through your bookmarks.
If you click on the View menu you can switch between the Details view (the one that looks like Cover Flow) or a regular Thumbnails view. The Thumbnails view tiles all of the websites on one page which might be a little more user friendly if you’re going through hundreds of bookmarks.
There is also a Create Previews option located under the File menu if you want to have the extension go through all of your bookmarks and grab previews for them. It’s all done in the background so you can go about doing your business in Firefox while it works, but it will likely take awhile if you have hundreds of bookmarks.
I estimate that each preview image is around 30KB in size, and about 30 previews will take up about 1MB of space. All of the JPG files are stored in your Firefox profile in a folder called bookmarkpreviews that will be deleted if you uninstall the extension.
Bookmark Previews Firefox Extension
Kudos to “Trip” for the tip!
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Tags: Firefox, Freeware, Newly Released, Software, Firefox Extensions
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Awesome find, I remember early versions of Firefox 3 having previews for your bookmarks but it was taken out once it hit Beta 1.
It is also on AMO at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6271
Currently in the sandbox though. I just need to fix one small FF3 bug before it will be pushed public there.
Cool but sadly useless…..
Cool, this way I can easily see which bookmarks can be deleted or should be updated because the site has moved or disappeared! (AM-Deadlink can miss a few)
Very nicely done, but as far as I’m concerned, ‘Cover Flow’ has missed many snapshots, though the links were valid (I had performed a link check with AM-DeadLink just before).
Moreover, I must agree with ‘Google (All-Star)’, this extension is nice but rather useless, even if it remains a very nice gadget.
I must also agree with ‘Google (All-Star)’ and Transcontinental this is nice but actually a gadget.
You should rather http://www.web2wave.com also based on coverflow but more usefull.
Check out http://www.textglow.net/ for Silverlight+OOXML similar stuff.
Thank’s John web2wave is really a cool thing. looks like Apple Mac Tiger OS or OS X but it is web based!
After having tried it I will have to agree with the rest: it missed a lot of snapshots for valid websites, rendering it useless for what I thought I could use it for. Pity.
I’ve noticed that it can’t generate the previews for all sites as well, and it would be pretty cool if the developer (John who commented above) would integrate in the link checking and such. That would seem like a natural addition to this extension since it already has to go and fetch the site.
Visually enhanced bookmarks can aid web- browsing, but it is mighty diffcult to wean away from old skool stuff.