Cool Mash Up: CoolPreviews 3.0 with the Cooliris Wall

Hot off the press this week, CoolPreviews v3.0 for Firefox introduces a ton of new features for browsing faster. What’s really hip is its interactive display of the Cooliris Wall within the preview window.

To understand how it all works, let’s first do a quick recap on CoolPreviews. With over 9 million downloads to date, this sweet little addon is all about browsing faster. You can preview links on just about any website, including Google, all without leaving your current page or tab. Simply mouseover a link, and a separate preview window appears to show the content.

Pretty slick, eh? No surprise CoolPreviews is a five-star favorite on the Mozilla Addons site.

Now, about that Cooliris Wall mashup . . .

Say, you want to search the Web to see everything about Avatar, the new James Cameron movie. You query “avatar” in Google web search as usual. You then use CoolPreviews to browse the official Avatar movie site, without even leaving your Google results page. To see what Wikipedia says about Avatar, you just mouseover that link, too.

But what if you want to see a lot more related images and videos of Avatar? No problem. Simply click the “Cooliris” button in the built-in search bar of CoolPreviews. Literally thousands of multimedia results will then display on the infinite Cooliris Wall within the CoolPreviews frame. (Press F8 on PC or Alt+Esc on Mac to hide the Cooliris chrome for a bigger picture.)

So things go smoothly, you’ll need the latest versions of both Firefox addons: That’s version 3.0+ for CoolPreviews and 1.11.6+ for Cooliris.

With Cooliris integrated, CoolPreviews is the fastest and ultimate way to browse.