Piclens - A New 3D Way to Browse

Firefox isnt my default browser (Opera still is my default browser) but every now and then I stumble across wonderful extensions that does make me want to use it more. Piclens is one such extension.

PicLens provides a full screen, 3D interface to view multimedia content (images and videos) on the web. Piclens extension for Firefox adds a small button that turns blue whenever you come across a website that is supported. When fired up Piclens gets rid of the browser window and normal webpage, extracts the multimedia content from the webpage and displays it in a truely captivating and stunning 3D interface. You feel that you are flying past a wall of of images (or rather their thumbnails) which on being double click open up the slideshow interface displaying a full screen high resolution version of the image. (more…)