CoolIris1.12.3.53363

As far as I can tell this program no longer exists. 2011 saw the last activity here, 2014 Yahoo assimilated it, no links to anything to be found.......

Used to love this little plug-in - now it's been stuck in 32-bit forever and thus forces Safari to run in 32-bit mode, the interface hasn't been updated in ages, the photos are all low-res. Started with a lot of promise and has since fallen flat on it's face. Honestly, I'd be happy if they just update the plug-in to be 64-bit compatible. I know it's not a big deal for Safari to run in 32-bit mode, but there isn't any reason for it to have to - it's not that difficult to recompile a plug-in for 64-bit compatibility. The developers just seem lazy.

I have installed , but I can't find it when I open Safari. Anyone know where it is located (i.e. what menu). Thanks.

-- Unfortunate change in hardware requirements: "For Macs, any model with an Intel chip will work. PPC Macs are not supported."

Sounds like trash! You would think by now that everyone knows we apple users expect nothing but the best! They are to use to putting things out for that other OS "Company " Thats expected not to work right! ;-)

Low res images, 32 bit? Pass.

Nope!!! Don't put this in Safari or any other browser.Low Res in every way! As soon as you install it you will want to trash it!

I was re-directed to the CoolIris site and (when attempting to download the app) advised that my machine and browser (Safari 4) did not meet the required specifications when they most definitely do! Back to the drawing board guys...

DO not download this app. The images are lo res, the application works erratically, viewing is difficult as it moves to quickly but most of all this will hang your browser. As you are scrolling you get second stops that after a while becomes infuriating. De installing is difficult as there is no info on their website. I am on a new powerbook so no hardware problems.

I agree. CoolIris is nice. Running Safari in 64-bit mode is nicer. I'll stick with the latter until if and when the CoolIris developers put out a 64-bit version. So thanks, but no thanks.

sysadmins, please update the requirements to say 10.5 or later. The developer's website says 1.11.6 is for Leopard and Snow Leopard. The last version I got to work on Tiger was 1.11.1.26925

crashed my imac several times had to remove as got so annoyed at being locked out by it....had to press power button at back of imac to regain control...... do not recommend this at all

Is this one compatible with 10.5.8 and PPC G5?

Still not 64bits...

I lopoooooooooove CoolIris :-)

Re: unusable http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/5814/picture1ye.png on G5

Same here not working on safari Leo 10.5.8 and btw never really fully worked, always complaining he cant use flash video becose flash plugin not installed.. not funny! since its totally false.

is this still glitchy or is it working the way the older version did?

Cooliris 1.11 works great on Intel IMac, Safari 4 1.11 still will not play youtube videos on a PPC (G5) Mac w/ Safari 4 Hopefully the usually-responsive Cooliris Support team will compile a version for us PPC users.

well, all versions keep telling me it cant use the flash plugin.. lol? so since it doesn't support flash/shockwave plugin where's the interest for this thing? i'd say useless ..... running on safari 4 or firefox same results. PPC G5 machine.

While I don't rely on many plugins for Safari this is one I can't do without. It has never caused any grief for me in the way that some poorly written InputManagers can. It is an elegant visual and navigational aid, in the Cover Flow style, for most any content you can view online. Support has been stellar. When Safari 4 (final) was released it broke the CoolIris version available at that time. I wrote to support and received a reply right away and another notice when an updated version was released a few days later. Excellent work.

well from what I understand safari 4 (not beta) now treats plugins as an exterior module not connected to the browser itself, so if plugins fail, the browser will not crash only the plugin would, allowing the browser to continue to function. In the past plugins would cause the browser to crash.

I am not so sure this is compatible with Safari 4 (not the beta). I have been running S4 for two days now and several times the app has crashed, complaining about coolIris (once directly in a window) and a couple times in the logfile. I just thought I would write this comment and see if others had similar thoughts.

A beautifully designed image viewing plug-in. Seems to work just fine for me with Safari 4 beta.

The september 2008 release was waaaaay better-i guess they were forced to resize and ugly-down youtube viewing for the tubes sake! Just wanted to let everyone know that Version 1.8.2.4688 is still the best as far as I think (and also since we don't get hulu in Europe :-((( ). Still an awesome app---just a little bit reached by the new Safari beta, don't u think?

Just tried it out for the first time. It looks interesting. It would be cool if it had more advanced searching features like Devonagent. I liked using it for image searches and facebook but I don't like using it for shopping. Maybe if it had really good pricegrabber support I would check it out again for shopping. Anyway... it's a cool gooey but needs a lot more functionality for me to actually keep using it and remember it's there.

I'm pretty amazed at the performance of this on my iBook (900MHz G3, 10.4.11). Developers of any eye-candy sort of app are quick to drop support for 10.4... but G3? Wow. It is totally usable and useful on it, it actually saves time if you do Google image searches and the like. (I, too, had tried PicLens, and wasn't so impressed with it at that time.)

I used this when it was called PicLens on the PC. I really liked it and never had any problems with it. Along with their other product CoolPreviews it was great. I tried them both out in FireFox on a couple of my Macs and found them to be OK but I really wanted to use Safari and development/stability seemed to be a bit off in Safari. The last version of CoolIris (aka PicLens) was right on in Safari...it beat the heck out of browsing through pages of Google thumbnails looking for pictures and having to wait for another page to load and have a look at the picture. This is a great add-on to any browser and OS combo. it could use a little more user control/configuration but the concept is solid and a real improvement from an end-ser experience perspective. I have read of few of the other comments and I agree that i don't like the fact that it relies on input managers...for Safari...but is that the fault of the developer or the lack of an integrated plugin system in Safari to allow for feature expansion? I don't know! I think it fairly good and petty stable. blah...blah...blah :-)

That new build (1.8.5.14851) correct previous problems about unstable (or unusable) machines, spinning wheel or windowServer becoming crazy... So now, the web becomes nice and pleasant to use when i browse (or search) images. Really good add-on for thoose who like beautyful presentations !

works fine for me. has for a long time. on both Safari & Firefox.

My machine became unstable too. Was a nightmare and took hours out of my workday. I noticed someone is "marking down" the comments with this problem. Must be the developer.

I too have had problems with CoolIris seeming to create a runaway process. To remove the software go to /Macintosh HD/Library/InputManagers and remove the folder with CoolIris in the name. Also go to /Macintosh HD/Library/Internet Plug-Ins and remove the WebKit plugin with the name CoolIris in it. Substitute the name of your system hard drive for "Macintosh HD". You will have to do this from an admin account or put in an admin account name and password when asked for one in a dialog box. Reboot after doing this.

Same problem as Stormchild. High-end iMac with plenty of memory. After installation it ran wonderfully for about 5 minutes, then massive destruction. Machine was completely unusable. No uninstaller. Like a trojan horse. Looks great. Deadly. I have lost two days so far trying to get this off of my machine. Nothing on developer site to suggest knowledge that this is a problem. Symptom: Machine will be running fine, then almost instantly grind to a glacial pace. And I mean glacial. Ten minutes for a click to register. A hard restart is the only apparent way out. Simple uninstall of plugin does nothing and no documentation on how to back out. Advice greatly appreciated.

Minor quibble with the latest version: the b&w icon should be reinstated. Color looks out of place on the Safari toolbar.

Whoa! This plug-in is stunning -- and incredibly useful. The first time I did clicked and grabbed to scroll to the right in the image gallery in a Google Image search, I was totally blown away by how the gallery tilted and rolled and flowed to the right as smooth as butter. But it's not just a visual tour-de-force, it's really, really useful for a quick scan and look of dozens, even hundreds of images. (How I wish I'd had this when I was doing image research for science textbooks I was working on, when I'd literally looks at hundreds and hundreds of images a day!) Of course, not every kind of site is supported, but enough good ones are to make this plug-in really worthwhile for many folks. I really like the Safari CoolIris's overall UI too. The only plug-in for Safari that even comes close to being this cool visually (and useful) is History Flow, part of the amazing, must-have SafariStand plug-in suite. The plug-in has also been rock-solid on my Intel iMac with Leopard 10.5.4 and gracefully tells you when a particular site isn't supported. (Funny, while the website calls this plug-in "CoolIris (formerly PicLens)" the Mac Firefox 3.0 version add-on calls and installs itself as *PicLens* NOT CoolIris. In fact, you can still get the earlier CoolIris FF add-on called Cooliris Previews, but this shouldn't be confused with this new add-on that does the neat scroll/gallery 3-D display. Jeez, did that make sense?) Anyway, CoolIris 1.8.0 etc. for Safari is a remarkable plug-in that I recommend to anyone.

Still no support for Safari 4. Bummer.

Works on 3.1.2…

no worky :( (Safari 3.1.2)

Plugin dosn't work unter Safari 3.1.1 for me. I can run the installer but after restarting Safari, i canÄt found anything of PicLens in the Pluginlist. Under Firefox it will be work perfect, but i can't use the Apple Remote.

PicLens stopped working for me since the last Mac update. Mac OS 10.4.11 with Safari 3.0.4 on a Intel MacPro. Contacted PicLens twice trying to get the problem resolved but never was contacted. I really liked PicLens when it was working. It still works correctly on my old G4 with Mac OS 10.4.11.

This has easily become one of my favorite new apps! One of the true tests for an app for me is if it makes the transition from one computer to another. I recently migrated to a new MacBook Pro from my old PowerBook and missed this app the first time I went to view a friend's online photo album. Keep up the great work!

Wow, nice. Thanks for this.