FolderGlance lets you control- or right-click folders in the Finder to see and open their contents directly from the Finder's contextual menu, as well as examine the contents of sub-folders down an unlimited number of levels. With Hover Previews, you can preview files directly from FolderGlance's menus by simply hovering your cursor over an item.

A handy menu-extra also gives you access to your folders from the main menubar, and you can extend FolderGlance's functionality with your own custom scripts. You can move, copy and make aliases of files in folders you browse to, and open files with applications you define using FolderGlance's customizable "Open with..." menu.

Features:

Dig into folders:
FolderGlance's main feature is its ability to dig down your folder hierarchy, either from the Finder's context menu, or from its menu extra. While browsing your hierarchy, you can open files, reveal them, or move/copy the current selection to the folder you browse to.

Hover Previews:
Hover Previews lets you preview files directly from the Finder's context menu or from FolderGlance's menu extra by simply hovering your cursor over a menu item in FolderGlance's menus. You can preview images, text files and other documents that are handled by Mac OS X' QuickLook preview system.

Menu Extra:
Using FolderGlance's menu extra, you can access custom folders and volumes straight from your menubar. You can also search for files and folders, and browse the results just as you would regularly do from FolderGlance's context menu in the Finder.

Extensibility with Custom Scripts:
By writing your own scripts, you can customize your context menu with your own menu hierarchies, or write your own custom actions to apply to the selection or folders you browse to. Scripts can even be executed implicitly, put to good use by the included Disk Usage script that calculates the size of the selection and displays it to you directly in the Finder's context menu. After the New file item in the screenshot, the first item is the output from the Disk Usage script, the second counts the number of files and folders in the selection, and the final items serve to demonstrate how you can build your own menu hierarchies. You can learn more about FolderGlance scripts in the FolderGlance Scripting Guide [PDF link]. The scripting guide is also included when you download FolderGlance.

Easily move, copy and make aliases of files:
FolderGlance lets you move, copy or make aliases of files in folders you browse to. Simply select the files and folders you wish to operate on, then browse to the location where you want to move, copy or make aliases of the files. The target folder can either be a part of the current selection, or a folder in one of your custom folders.

Requirements:
OS X 10.6+
Intel

Also available is:
Version 2.1 for OS X 10.3 -10.5