Image Hider

Chrome extension to hide all images by default and show images again with click of icon.

What is Image Hider?

'Image Hider' is a Chrome extension that enhances user browsing by offering control over the display of images on websites. It hides all images on a webpage by default, displaying them again when the extension icon is clicked. Its function is on a per-domain basis, allowing users to change display settings for each website. The extension also provides the option to hide background images. User preferences are automatically stored using HTML5 LocalStorage. However, it's worth noting that it doesn't currently work on videos or other media.

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By: Alex Mason

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.19 (27)

Version: 0.2.8 (Last updated: 2015-12-08)

Creation date: 2015-12-08

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

contextMenus
storage

Size: 1.60M

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 22573 ▲ 3

Other rankings

#4359 in Accessibility ▲ 14 #98 in image keyword 74 ▲

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Summary

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Hides images on a website, shows images temporarily on hover. Shows images again by clicking the extension icon.

Hide/Show preference works on a per-domain basis, meaning you can have one website hide images and another show them.

Preference is saved automatically using HTML5 LocalStorage.

Updated 12/07/2015 -- Now you can hide background images by toggling a setting (right click on the extension icon to find the setting). Note that this applies to all websites when toggled and may cause unwanted effects (ex: may hide button icons).

Updated again to fix default hide status.

This is an open source project under the MIT license.

Note: it does not currently work on videos, or other media.

User reviews

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Pros

Hides all images by default and allows to show then by hovering over them, which is useful for quickly understanding content.
Increases productivity and reduces distraction as it helps enable the viewing of required content only.
Users appreciate it because pages load faster without images.

Cons

No way to change default settings to show images, which is frustrating for many users.
Lacks flexibility in settings like having a global or domain-based toggle.
Sometimes hides more than just the images such as paragraphs of text.
Involuntary display of awful images when mouse accidentally hovers on it.

Most mentioned

Adding an option to set the default mode to either show or hide images would be beneficial.
Inclusion of options to turn off or adjust the mouse-over function would help prevent accidentally viewing unpleasant images.
User interface improvements to select between domain-specific or global settings.

Recent reviews

Would be 5 stars if there was an option to set the default mode to "show". As it is, it defaults to "hide" on every page. Hope will soon we'll have this helpful feature.

Pablo Frenkel, 2023-12-24

hive work perfec

Willeidys Maikol, 2023-07-30

Would be 5 stars if there was an option to set the default mode to "show". As it is, it defaults to "hide" on every page. Since it keeps track of the mode by domain (Which is good), you have to turn it off for each new domain you visit (Which is bad).