Firefox Extensions Part 3

Posted May 19, 2005

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I read today that there is somewhere around 400 extensions for Firefox now available. Pretty amazing. I continue to come across really useful extensions, making me fall in love with Firefox all the time and hating Microsoft more for not allowing me, the user, the most important person, do what I need with my own browsing experience.

Google Preview - Thumbnails in your google searches

Simple and straight forward, this extension gives you the power to see a small version of what a website looks like before you actually visit. Kind of like searching for images where you get a small thumbnail view first, here you get a small thumbnail of the homepage for your search results. Check out the screenshot I took below. I searched for “Really cool computer cases” and this is what my screen looks like;

Rating : 10 of 10

Cool just because. But seriously, I like to see whether I am visiting a crappy designed site, or a reputable site with good information. Funny how things like that can even be read into at a small scale.