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Search & Link Previews

A browser extension for previewing links and search results without opening new tabs.

Live demo

Note:
Several features (including certain URL previews) of this extension may not work in this demo due to inability to access the relevant Chrome Extension APIs / UIs from a page context.

You can trigger and update the demo (floating panel) by selecting text and clicking "Search".

You can trigger the preview functionality by hovering over a link like this Wikipedia article on ChatGPT.

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Keep fewer tabs open

No need to open a new tab just to check the definition of Floccinaucinihilipilification. Highlight it and click "search".

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Browse faster

It can premptively load search result pages for an almost instantenous view of websites.

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Quick actions

Beyond search, the extension provides quick actions like "copy" and "email" based on the selection context

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Highly accessible

The preview pane can be dragged, resized, minimized, expanded into a full tab and a whole lot more.

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Popular search engines

You can choose from Google to Bing, Baidu, Yandex, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia.

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Over 50 locales supported

You may use the extension in any of the global languages supported by Chrome.

All extensions are open-source, free, offline-first, privacy friendly and internationalized to all 50 supported browser locales

This is my solution to the too-many-open-tabs problem. Opening a new tab is easy, closing it is hard. This extension helps by showing links and search results in a preview pane inside the current tab, that way I don’t have to open a new tab in the first place.

It could start with me reading List of investors killed by their own invention, then 17 open tabs later, I find myself on Donner Party.


Frequently asked questions

Yes it should, though I have not verified.