Reviews of BetterViewer

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List of user reviews and ratings for BetterViewer

Total ratings

4.20 (Rating count: 41)

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Review summary

Users consistently praise BetterViewer’s zoom, rotate and in‑browser editing and call it a smooth, feature‑rich replacement for the built‑in viewer. Repeated complaints focus on recent updates that stopped it opening images by default, breakages in functionality (including the editor), and slow or absent developer fixes.

Pros

Powerful zoom and image tools (zoom, rotate, basic editing) praised by multiple users
Smooth, easy-to-use viewer that many say replaces or improves on the built‑in image viewer
Feature‑rich and reliable for desktop use—users repeatedly call it excellent or a 10/10

Cons

Recent updates removed its ability to open images by default (no longer the default viewer), which multiple users find disruptive
Reports of the extension or its editor not working recently—several users say it’s been broken for weeks/months
Perceived lack of developer responsiveness or timely updates to fix these issues

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 2.80

All time rating average: 4.20

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9% (4)

Date	Author	Comment
2026-05-02	Ka*****	Used to be a 5 / 5 extension, then after the v3 fiasco with Chrome, got updated for parity with the Chrome Exctension. It lost essentially all that made it worth using, just for it to be useless the same way in two browsers now. Also appears to be entirely abandoned by the developer. A real pity, it used to be an extension that I considered worth it to be included natively in Firefox
Used to be a 5 / 5 extension, then after the v3 fiasco with Chrome, got updated for parity with the Chrome Exctension. It lost essentially all that made it worth using, just for it to be useless the same way in two browsers now. Also appears to be entirely abandoned by the developer. A real pity, it used to be an extension that I considered worth it to be included natively in Firefox
2025-10-10	Mo*****

2025-09-23	po*****	Hasn't been working for a while, so I'm changing my rating.
Hasn't been working for a while, so I'm changing my rating.
2025-09-21	_D*****	It’s really sad to see that the author doesn’t care about their own creation. For two months, it hasn’t been working as it should, and there’s no update to fix it. Now this add-on is useless.
It’s really sad to see that the author doesn’t care about their own creation. For two months, it hasn’t been working as it should, and there’s no update to fix it. Now this add-on is useless.
2025-08-20	ni*****	newest update removes BetterViewer from being the Default viewer and simply adds it as an option at the bottom of the menu. ...this entirely defeats the point of BetterViewer, as I installed it specifically to REPLACE the default image viewer, not to have an option. Also I created an account just to write this review, BetterViewer was almost perfect before, now it's pretty much useless.
newest update removes BetterViewer from being the Default viewer and simply adds it as an option at the bottom of the menu. ...this entirely defeats the point of BetterViewer, as I installed it specifically to REPLACE the default image viewer, not to have an option. Also I created an account just to write this review, BetterViewer was almost perfect before, now it's pretty much useless.
2025-08-11	Fi*****	Ever since version 2 it doesn't open images in BetterViewer by default. And that's highly annoying as it was the only reason why I used it so extensively compared to other similar extensions. If I now forget to go all the way down in context menu after right click and instead of "open image in new tab" I don't click "Open image in betterviewer" I have to do additional steps of clicking again and choosing it. Don't know if this is Mozilla's reason or not, but it makes me want to use this extension less and remove it, as it's then easier to just screenshot images via other apps in my PC and/or open them in that editor and it'll be same amount of clicks.
Ever since version 2 it doesn't open images in BetterViewer by default. And that's highly annoying as it was the only reason why I used it so extensively compared to other similar extensions. If I now forget to go all the way down in context menu after right click and instead of "open image in new tab" I don't click "Open image in betterviewer" I have to do additional steps of clicking again and choosing it. Don't know if this is Mozilla's reason or not, but it makes me want to use this extension less and remove it, as it's then easier to just screenshot images via other apps in my PC and/or open them in that editor and it'll be same amount of clicks.
2025-07-09	Ta*****	This extension is unironically better than any built-in photo editor/viewer Windows ever had by default. 99% of the things I want to do with the picture, I can do while it's still in the browser. Crazy good.
This extension is unironically better than any built-in photo editor/viewer Windows ever had by default. 99% of the things I want to do with the picture, I can do while it's still in the browser. Crazy good.
2025-06-30	Tr*****	Perfect image viewer! I really like the zoom its very convenient. The rotate feature for those wrongly portrait photos in landscape, the editing everything is excellent. 100% recommended addon
Perfect image viewer! I really like the zoom its very convenient. The rotate feature for those wrongly portrait photos in landscape, the editing everything is excellent. 100% recommended addon
2025-03-31	Di*****	Great extension, thank you!
Great extension, thank you!
2025-03-23	远离*****