This looks handy! Well, to look for boats, etc, of course.

Summary

This is a simple free Firefox add-on that will allow you to see a thumbnail of the CraigsList images without clicking on each ad. An image says a thousand words! Check out the video.

The plugin is called PicLens by cooliris. It’s available for Safari (wow!), Firefox and something called Internet Explorer (catchy name that) – it works on something called V.i.s.t.a. and Mac OS X (no Linux fun yet).

Once installed you’ll see a little playback icon inside a picture when visiting flickr, Facebook, Google Images, Picassa, Yahoo Pictures… and more!

Here a screen shot from their website:

So it is preloading all the thumbnails of a given album and while you scroll to the right it’ll continue loading…