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Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Lat: 34.547 Lon: -118.062 |
posted 03-26-2005 19:21
I have noticed that when I mouse over links to some sites using Firefox, a small preview window pops up showing that site. On links to other sites I just get a picture coming soon graphic by alexa.com. I assume that this is something similar to the favicon, however I have been unable to find any information on how make this feature work on my site. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would be appreciate the help. Please refer to samples below: |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: France |
posted 03-26-2005 19:25 |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Lat: 34.547 Lon: -118.062 |
posted 03-26-2005 19:30 |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Lat: 34.547 Lon: -118.062 |
posted 03-26-2005 19:30
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Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: France |
posted 03-26-2005 20:11 |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: under the bed |
posted 03-26-2005 21:44
I would have to assume this is, as poi said, an extension you've installed in your borwser, and not something on the page itself. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Lat: 34.547 Lon: -118.062 |
posted 04-09-2005 04:01
I do recall installing some plugins for Firefox such as the color sample tool, I may very well have installed the preview plugin. I still wonder why some sites display a preview and some don't. I also noticed the sometimes the preview window shows a different version of the site it links to. It will be the same company, but not the main index page. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: France |
posted 04-19-2005 00:44
Are you sure you did not installed LinkPreview ? |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Lat: 34.547 Lon: -118.062 |
posted 04-27-2005 00:10 |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Lat: 34.547 Lon: -118.062 |
posted 04-27-2005 00:12
From the link that poi provided, I was able to learn this: |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: London |
posted 04-27-2005 11:44
I've got an extension called BetterSearch, this extension for Firefox enhances Google, A9, MSN, Yahoo, ALLTheWeb and some others by adding those preview thumbnails, and from what i understand they're taken from The Web Archive and the Way Back Machine, what extensions do you have installed Wavmixer? |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: France |
posted 04-27-2005 11:48
Blaise: WavMixer said above he's installed the LinkPreview I mentionned. |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: London |
posted 04-27-2005 13:28
Yeah I noticed, I was just pointing out that there's another extension that does the same thing and better, also that it gets everything from the internet archive. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Lat: 34.547 Lon: -118.062 |
posted 04-28-2005 18:10
Yup, Link Preview was the plugin on I added to firefox. Still don't know what I can do to ensure that it works on my client sites though. Colorzilla is another great plugin for sampling colorcodes. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: Den Haag: The Royal Residence |
posted 04-29-2005 03:18
Nothing! both extensions read from databases, when it's not in the database there will be no preview, when the info in the database is old the preview will look diiferent from the current site. |