GPeeker

Preview a web page from another web page without actually navigated.

What is GPeeker?

GPeeker is a revolutionized browsing tool allowing you to preview any desired link without navigating to it. Simply hover your mouse over the link, press your designated hotkey, and a popup with a preview of the link's content materializes. You have the power to customize your hotkey and even make GPeeker ignore specific domains. It enhances browsing efficiency, saves time, and provides a seamless internet experience.

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By: Gidi Dafner

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.11 (36)

Version: 2.0.1 (Last updated: 2021-08-18)

Creation date: 2015-12-04

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
tabs

Size: 16.19K

Email: gi*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 22765 ▲ 1

Other rankings

#13254 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 5 #188 in press keyword 17 ▼ 6 #194 in hover keyword 10 ▼ 2 #236 in shift keyword 21 #281 in preview keyword 19 ▲ 2

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Peeker (v2.0.1.0)

5.00

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Extension summary

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Features:

Press your favorite hotkey while hovering a link to open a popup with a preview of that link.
The ability to make GPeeker ignore specific domains.

After four years, GPeeker is back baby!

This extension allows you to preview any link without actually navigate to it.

Just hover your mouse to the desired link, press the Shift key, and boom! You will see a popup with all the content from this link. Press Shift again, and boom! You will navigate to this page.

Of course, You can customize the Shift key.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Works as advertised in most cases
Helpful for previewing links without navigating away
Appreciated for its functionality
User-friendly for the most part
Only extension that provides this capability

Cons

Navigating to a page upon releasing the trigger is counterintuitive
Preview window is too large, covering the entire screen
Issues with navigating using the escape key
Frequent problems with iFrame content loading
Requires multiple clicks/keys instead of a streamlined experience

Most mentioned

Unfortunately, the website is refusing to load the content via an iFrame
Preview window is much too large
Navigating to the website when releasing the trigger
Could benefit from key options for improved usability
Escape key issues with closing the preview

Recent reviews

Hi Gidi, Wondering if you still maintain this lol This would be perfect for me, but I keep getting " Unfortunately, the website is refusing to load the content via an iFrame." after I see a 0.5second glimpse of the site (on Gmail btw). Anyway to fix that?

warburton pharmacy, 2022-05-20

Gave a little sense of hope but then it kinda dissapointed me in the state it is right now, when I press the trigger button to have the preview it's great, a little big but alright why not, but when I release I do not want to go to the webpage, but it seems to be the current way it works, if you hold the trigger button the page load, but when you release the button it opens up the hovered link. This is not the expected way the addon should behave IMHO, when you hold the trigger button it should show the preview, when you release it, it should end the preview and make you able to continue to scroll. There seems to be a problem when using the escape button as holding the trigger button and then pressing escape button are shortcuts on windows that you do not want to press. Clicking on the escape button in the top right of the screen still opens up the previewed page.

Inno Vetrov (Ancien compte clapnclip), 2022-03-03

Thanks to the Developer Gidi - this works as advertised. Waiting for the few bugs previously mentioned in the reviews to get fixed. Gidi- please consider adding two key options to this extension - activate on hover (with optional time setting to control speed of opening, ex. after 2 secs, etc) - remember preview window position and size (full size preview opening is ok but should be optional to enable uninterrupted browsing of main page) To me, the purpose of an extension like this is for convenience-to check a link to see if it has content you actually want to view, ideally without additional clicking / key pressing. As it is now, there are multiple addtional clicks / key presses required to make that happen vs just directly going to the link: 1-hotkey press and click 2-possible preview window resize 3-possible click to navigate to link/open in popup 4-click / key press to escape out of preview window As an example, the extension Search Results Previewer is an excellent implementation of this methodology. Its primary limitation is that it only works on google search. Your effort on GPeeker is definitely appreciated for making the functionality generally applicable.