Hi everyone! 👋 I built Prelook because I got tired of my own tab chaos while reading. I'm the kind of person who opens 15 tabs in 20 minutes going down a rabbit hole — every link that looked interesting became a new tab, and by the end I'd lost track of which one I actually wanted to read. I tried a few hover-preview extensions already out there, but they kept disappointing me: - Some only worked on sites that allow iframe embedding, so half the web (X, GitHub, Medium) showed a broken box. - Others loaded a laggy screenshot instead of the real, interactive page. - The polished ones locked multi-window and customization behind a paid tier. So I built the previewer I actually wanted: - **Hover any link** (or Alt+hover, long-press, or drag — pick your trigger) to pop a floating window right at your cursor. - **Smart rendering**: it tries an interactive iframe first; if a site blocks embedding, it automatically falls back to a clean reader-mode view. No more dead boxes. - **Up to 6 preview windows at once** — pin the ones you care about and compare links side by side. - **Built-in link prefetch** so previews load near-instantly. - **Select any text** to web-search, ask an AI, or translate — without leaving the page. - Runs on **Chrome, Edge, and Firefox**. And because I hate paywalls on tiny tools like this, **everything is free** — no Pro tier, no feature gates. The process itself went through a funny detour: I originally named it TabPeek, but right before launch I found an existing extension on the Chrome Web Store already using that name — so I renamed everything to Prelook. That was a good reminder to actually check the store before committing to a name 😅 I'd love your feedback, especially: - Which trigger do you reach for — hover, long-press, or drag? - Any sites where the preview breaks or looks wrong? - What's one feature you'd want next? The landing page has a short demo video if you want to see it in action. Thanks for checking it out

Prelook

Hover any link to preview it — no new tabs, no context lost

Hover any link to preview it — no new tabs, no context lost