Bookmark Previews: Cover Flow for your Bookmarks

Bookmark Previews is a Firefox extension, which generates thumbnail previews for all your Firefox bookmarks and lets you browse through your bookmarks in Apple-ish Cover Flow interface.

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Basically, this extension adds two views to your bookmark manager: Thumbnail view (Cover Flow style) and Album view. Whenever you add a bookmark or visit any of your bookmarked pages, it snaps a screenshot and preserve it. When you first install this extension, it’ll create thumbnails for your bookmarks in background.

I have around 280 bookmarks in my browser, and I found this extension to be harmful for my browser’s performance. I’m not totally sure, if this is due to the number of bookmarks I’m having, or due to some other reason. Nonetheless, it’s pretty cool, if not very useable.

Bookmark Preview – [via: Lifehacker]

This post was published by on June 29, 2008

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  • http://www.gadgets4nowt.co.uk Wii

    Just tried to install this but I get “no preview” on all the bookmarks. Any ideas?

  • http://www.seoresults.co.za SEO Man

    Urgh! The issue with lots of these Firefox Plugins and Addons highlighted once again. The browser gets sluggish. Got loads of bookmarks myself, and this app really looks cool, but I need the speed man!

  • http://www.evawhite.com Eva White

    Having too many bookmarks does spoil browsing efficiency. I personally just store the sites on a spreadsheet and visit them when I want accordingly.

  • http://www.greatpriceshere.com Nicole Price

    No thanks. I dread to change from the familiar manual way of using the bookmark facility. Even the simple folders system is getting to be daunting in Firefox!

  • http://www.netage.co.za Marketing

    Will try it out, a bit worried about the speed but worth a try. Before the FF upgrade I had far too many pluggins and my browser was far too slow, this time round I am going to be more selective.

  • http://technodorm.com Fahad

    I guess I will try it out to see how it looks. I dont have much bookmarks(only about 100) so I guess I shouldn’t see a drop in firefox performance because of this.

  • http://techmalaya.com Syahid A.

    @Nicole: Adding views without removing the original view is quite ok to me. Looks like a souped-up version of Thumbstrip.

  • http://mytechquest.com Steve Yu

    This extension will affect the performance of firefox? If so, I’m not going to use it cos I too have lotsa bookmarks.

  • http://www.netage.co.za Marketing

    Heads up on my last post yesterday. It does not slow my PC down AT ALL and it is really awesome. Its a reminder, visually of sites that I visit. Thanks.

  • http://www.flowers-org.com/ Dan

    Bookmark Previews makes harm for our browser’s performance as well. That is why it is much better not to use it

  • http://www.gadgets4nowt.co.uk Wii

    Had to unistall this one in the end, a good concept but struggled to get it to work, then crashed my machine (:

  • http://bestyogaworkout.com Yoga Man

    I have a lot of bookmarks too, and if it slows down too much, I’m not sure if it is worth it no matter how cool it is.

  • http://www.flowers-org.com/ Dan

    I will have a try of it for sure. Will keep you updated!

  • http://soft.blogspotvn.com http://soft.blogspotvn.com

    Thank!
    It’s good extension