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March 24, 2008 12:12 PM PDT

Firefox extension adds photos to Craigslist searches

by Josh Lowensohn
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Remember ListPic, the service that used to scrape Craigslist for photos in listings and present them in a wonderfully simple visual browser? Well it's still around, albeit with listings from Oodle instead of Craigslist proper. If you're still jonesing for that visual Craigslist experience, there's a Firefox extension aptly named Craigslist image preview that you're going to enjoy. It will automatically pull up photo thumbnails from each posting and put them into the search results so you can eyeball each item before spending the extra click to see the photos.

This works for everything, not just real estate or items for sale, which actually makes exploring some of Craigslist's darkest depths quite a bit of fun. As Simon over at DownloadSquad notes, a similar tool like this is actually a part of Craigslist already, but only for the bikes listings. We've been expecting Craigslist to roll out its own enhanced visual viewer since the cryptic comment by creator Craig Newark about a visual viewer during the ListPic takedown last June. Until then you'll have to settle for this.

[Via DownloadSquad]

Instead of just links, the image viewer extension automatically adds tiny thumbnails to search results, making it more visually engaging.

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Josh Lowensohn writes for Webware.com, CNET's blog about Web applications and services. E-mail Josh, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/Josh.
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by got80s March 24, 2008 2:28 PM PDT
um, yeah.. old news.. there's been a greasemonkey script out that does this for over a year.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6155
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by nasacouk March 28, 2008 7:46 PM PDT
neither one works in Ffox3beta4.
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by classifieds December 28, 2008 4:23 PM PST
It works on adlandpro classifieds http://adlandpro.ws
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