[Camino] bookmarks viewer preview feature concept

[Philippe Wittenbergh]

On 4/4/06, S. Woodside <sbwoodside at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I made up a concept drawing this weekend of a new feature for Camino:
>    http://simonwoodside.com/weblog/2006/03/31
>
> I added a preview pane to the bookmarks viewer (which I co-wrote the
> original code for). I was inspired in part by the "now playing" pane
> in iTunes video podcasts, as shown in the thumnail at right.
>
> When you click on a bookmark, the preview pane will load and display
> the site as it currently appears.

It has already been mentioned, Gecko 1.8 can generate thumbnails on
the fly. There is, iirc, a Firefox extension that already does part of
your idea.
Personally, I like the idea, not so much for bookmarks (I got into the
habit of making sure those things have a meaningfull title), but for
my recent history (whose data still could be fetched from cache ?) -
it could help quickly getting back at that one article that was so
interesting.

Philippe
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