“Preview Google search results in your browser”

Googlepreviews is one of those small, simple apps you didn't think about but that once you test, you can't really live without.

This Firefox extension adds thumbnails next to search results in Google and Yahoo!, so that you can quickly get a glimpse of the websites those links are pointing to. These previews enable you to scan search results more quickly and what you're looking for in a much easier way, as opposed to having to carefully read each link.

The extension's settings window allows you, among other things, to set the number of previews that should be displayed on each page, which may be useful if they take too long to load or slow your browser down. During our testing there wasn't a single problem though, and the extension worked perfectly.

Just like links themselves, thumbnails also point to their correspondent webpages. What I missed was the possibility to customize them in some way – at least in something as basic as being able to select their size.

Googlepreviews is a simple way to optimize Google and Yahoo! search results by adding thumbnailed previews of the websites they link to.

Languages:

English

OS requirements for GooglePreview:

OS: Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista

Minimum requirements:

Firefox 1.0

Pros

Thumbnails are very helpful when scanning search results
It doesn't slow down the browser

Cons

Thumbnails can't be resized or customized in any way

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From the publisher of GooglePreview

Inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites and Amazon products into the Google and Yahoo search results pages. When you use GooglePreview and click on an Amazon link within the search results, you support me and the further development of the extension and back end if you actually purchase a product. The GooglePreview thumbnail system currently consists of 5 dedicated servers and generates 4.5 TB of traffic per month.