BookmarkPreviews: Cover Flow for Firefox bookmarks

by Brad Linder Mar 10th 2008

BookmarkPreviews is an awesome, but kind of useless plugin for Firefox that lets you scroll through thumbnails of bookmarked web pages using an Apple Cover Flow-style browser. When you install the add-on, BookmarkPreviews will create a snapshot every time you visit a page you've already bookmarked. Then when you open your bookmark manager you can scroll through them in graphical form.

The only problem is that we can't imagine a circumstance where it would be faster to scroll through your bookmarks this way than to just click on the one you're looking for. Plus most folks we know use online bookmarking services like del.icio.us to store their bookmarks anyway.

[via CyberNet

Tags: add-ons, bookmarkpreviews, bookmarks, cover-flow, firefox, plugins

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

David Chartier said 9:32PM on 3-10-2008

I use online social bookmarking sites too, but I can totally see this being useful if it could take advantage of integration with Firefox and del.icio.us via that add-on. Glancing at an image of some obscure blog bookmark or another site one is unfamiliar with makes it much easier to identify a site later on than picking its possibly-uninformative headline out of a flat list of 'marks.

boogie said 9:35PM on 3-10-2008

I have about 1200 bookmarks in Firefox so I don't see this being useful at all. It's OK when you have just a few bookmarks, but for a big-scale bookmarking experience I recommend using Google Bookmarks or del.icio.us so you know that your data is relatively safe and doesn't depent on the stability of Firefox or IE for that matter.

yazan said 8:49AM on 3-11-2008

people like me who enjoy some occasional amateur web design store bookmarks for visual inspiration ... if find it useful if i can scroll through 50 links on the fly rather than open 50 links individually or at the same time

Deza said 4:53PM on 5-30-2008

I think that Google Web Bookmarks service is extraordinarily useful for many reasons, but to recognize the bookmarks could arise some frustrations. For this reason, I’ve developed an Add-On for IE called Quick History for Google. Its goal is providing a visual help to recognize the bookmarks easier. This Add-On creates and inserts a thumbnail of the target page aside of bookmark.

It has other features. Please, check it.

http://quick.history.googlepages.com/home.html

Thanks! The Author.

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