Quick Peek for Firefox Firefox

Quick Peek for Firefox

Quick Peek at links without leaving your current tab.

Features & Capabilities

Take a quick peek at links without leaving the current browser tab.

Use the contextmenu > Peek (Right-click or Cmd-click). You may use also use shortkey 'E'.

Click on the preview to open the link in a tab.

Press ESCAPE, Q or click anywhere outside the preview to close the preview.

A small animated GIF of how this works can be viewed here: https://github.com/j-angnoe/quick-peek-browser-extension.

This extension is open source for you to review.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Manifest V2 Add-on
By:
Joshua Angnoe
Daily users:
4 1
Rating:
4.00
(1)
Version:
0.0.3 Last updated: 2019-11-05
Version code:
4895365
Creation date:
2019-11-05
Risk:
High risk impact Low risk likelihood
Permissions:
Size:
10.45KB
Email:
jo*****@fluxfx.nl
URLs:
Website
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Firefox Add-ons Store
Data ingested on:
2026-07-09
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Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Firefox add-on. Please use these information below to contact the Firefox add-on developer.
Developed by:
Joshua Angnoe
Firefox Add-ons Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/quick-peek-for-firefox/
Email:
jo*****@fluxfx.nl
Website:
https://github.com/j-angnoe/quick-peek-browser-extension

User Reviews

Good concept and works as advertised, would be better if it rendered the preview immediately instead of after the tab has finished loading.
by Lu*****, 2020-05-07
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Is Quick Peek for Firefox Safe?

Risk impact
Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Quick Peek for Firefox requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood
Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Add-ons Store, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Firefox add-on.

Quick Peek for Firefox has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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