Instant Preview — Open Any Link in Sidebar / Side Panel icon

Instant Preview — Open Any Link in Sidebar / Side Panel

by Jungle

v6.7.1 Updated Dec 31, 2025 56.0KiB
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★ 3.96
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Description

Instant Preview lets you open and preview any link directly in a **sidebar** (Chrome side panel). No more switching tabs—just hover, click, and see the content. Perfect for research, reading articles, or checking references. ## How to Use Instant Preview 1. **📋 Context Menu Click** – Right-click a link and click the "Instant Preview" option to open it in the sidebar (side panel). 2. **⏱️ Long Click + 👆 Hover** – Click and hold a link to open the sidebar, then hover over links to show previews in the sidebar. 3. **🖱️ Popover Click** – Click the small button that appears when hovering over a link to open the link in the sidebar. 4. **⏱️ Long Click** – Click and hold on any link to open its preview in the sidebar. 5. **👆 Hover** – Move your mouse over any link to show the link's website in the sidebar / side panel. Note: Before using Hover, you need to open the sidebar by clicking the extension icon, due to Chrome Extension API limitations. 6. **❌ Close the panel** – Click the close button or use the context menu to hide the **sidebar panel**. ## How to Configure Instant Preview 1. **⚙️ Choose your trigger (select only one)** – In the extension settings, pick **one** of the following triggers: - 📋 Context Menu Click - ⏱️ Long Click + 👆 Hover - 🖱️ Popover Click - ⏱️ Long Click - 👆 Hover 2. **💾 Save your settings** – Click **Save** to apply your chosen trigger.
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Reviews (29 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2023-01-16
Dan

USED USED to be good now its garbage.

★☆☆☆☆2022-10-05
Rex malmin

I won't work for me at all

★☆☆☆☆2022-06-11
Genivieve Vasquez

It's not working anymore. Disappointing.

★☆☆☆☆2021-06-21
anma miiya

A solid assessment of previously "expensive" extensions.

★☆☆☆☆2021-06-21
-l -i -n

I think the current evaluation is a transcendental overestimation.

★☆☆☆☆2020-07-10
memphis tennessee

it laggs

★☆☆☆☆2018-11-15
Francis “lilo621” Lapointe

Was good before, now I can't see any website for a while.

★☆☆☆☆2018-09-28
taro sun

I liked it before,but now uninstall it.Because it cost too much.

★☆☆☆☆2017-06-04
Huong Nguyen

Its not free

★☆☆☆☆2017-03-05
V M

What did you do.. first came those ridiculous handles one had to search for to get the page to open in a new tab.. Now there is this equally ridicoulus pop-out which forces the entire browser window to disapear and all one is left with is this popout and no browser on the desktop.. to add insult to injury, in the 'free' version it is impossible to integrate the pop-out into the web browser. and 14.99 a year.. For what exactly.. Email apps that have far more options .. that work, and they are free or donate.... there is an old expression ..that fits perfectly here.. If It Is Not Broken .. Do not try and fix It.. Go back to what you had.. Ask for Donations..or at the very least a one off price that guarantees all future updates are free for premium users.. Greed Kills..Absolute greed kills absolutely.. My advice to anyone who uses this extension 'delete now' use switch to firefox there are better preview options. And to the developer.. 14.99 a year.. laughable.. Don't quit your day job...

★☆☆☆☆2017-02-23
John Streit

Awesome for 5-10years. Hasn't worked for several months - just hangs on progress bar.

★☆☆☆☆2016-07-06
joseph taylor

No change whatsoever.

★☆☆☆☆2014-07-16
Mirodil

not works

★★☆☆☆2023-04-01
Ding Dong

Its working ok but why no hotkey setup available?

★★☆☆☆2022-10-05
Stefan Penov

Seems to work with Google, but on DuckDuckGo it does absolutely nothing for me. I also don't see an option to set size of preview iframe and the default one won't fit everyone's preferences.

★★☆☆☆2022-06-12
MaTT Belis

It doenst work :/ 12.6.2022

★★☆☆☆2017-03-13
Victor V

After update (preview shows in new window) the extension have become very annoying. I'm removing it.

★★☆☆☆2015-10-21
Whom Isac

I liked it first when it could do what I wanted to e.g. display a search preview window in google search (on same window). I could play youtube videos while searching. Now, this function does not work anymore, not for youtube only but for other sites too. And one of it's problem is that it's not displaying the web content clearly. If a website has a different layout or web language it shows error or display weirdly. Quite disappointing after an update when it worked very well.

★★☆☆☆2013-10-20
Tracy Ann

I have know clue what happen but this use to work so awesome but now it no longer works tried to re install many time to no help in getting it to work. i loved this add on now can not use it

★★★☆☆2021-09-18
BIOS-Pherecydes

When it works, it works fairly well. However, it is incompatible with wikia sites, which will consistently exceed the frame. In addition, it attempts to load a preview instantly upon hovering over a link, which means that there it will both load webpages you don't want to view and will also result in a delay in clicking the actual link to opening any website fully until the preview has finished loading, which means the webpage loads twice. Both are in unacceptable data drains. If the preview panel could be resized or relocated manually, or a delay was added before the preview was loaded, I'd happily rate it higher. As is however, the drawbacks make it more trouble than it's worth to keep running full-time.

★★★☆☆2017-10-27
A

why does it highlight everything so annoying!!

★★★☆☆2017-04-20
Faisal Alvi

there should be option to set default position/height/width of the popup window.

★★★☆☆2017-03-31
Nantinee T.

iframe is good but not that useful when I cannot adjust my own width and height of frame...the embedded window (the old one) is much better

★★★☆☆2016-12-26
r w

slow to wait to preview sites individually, unless prefetch

★★★☆☆2016-05-18
Nguyen neyugN

Please fix xenforo. its not good in working.

★★★☆☆2016-03-30
Tec StilFrontBkmrks

It has potential but not useful for me without keyboard shortcuts to select different results. I'll check it again after some months in case they have been added. Regards.

★★★☆☆2014-07-06
James Waters

This was a fantastic extension, but the change from an embedded window to a floating one is very annoying. The option to choose which mode to use would be great!

★★★☆☆2014-01-21
Constantino M. Valmaseda

Having to point each link with the mouse is too cumbersome and inefficient. This could have been useful to check links faster with the keyboard: using the up and down key used to work great when Google first released this preview feature (which was removed soon after probably -just a guess- due to their business model) but unfortunately this extension is not using keyboard shortcuts. Hope next version has this done (I'm un-enabling it instead of uninstalling it just in case they do it later). Anyway, for this extension to be usable/practical the preview has to be displayed faster than it is now... Hope they manage to make it.

★★★☆☆2013-12-17
John Lai (pty1)

please put an option for delay time b4 preview appear. sometimes , i just want to open in another new tab instead of using this extension.

Permissions (3)

Permissions

contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu sidePanel storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 6.7.1
Updated Dec 31, 2025
Size 56.0KiB
First Seen Mar 28, 2026