Force Imgur Desktop

Name: Force Imgur Desktop
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: Cobb

By: Cobb

Intended for mobile users. Spoofs your user-agent on Imgur only, which should force it to use the desktop site instead of the awful mobile site. Should also allow you to access images directly without being redirected to album pages.

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Features & Capabilities

Imgur sucks on mobile. If you try to view an image directly, at full resolution, Imgur forcibly redirects you to its containing album, which shows the images at low resolution and quality. The album page gives you no reliable way to view the image at full size and resolution, and trying to open the image directly from there just redirects you back.

This add-on spoofs a desktop user-agent string, which should trick Imgur into letting you use the desktop site.

This add-on is provided AS IS, with no support or bug fixes guaranteed. It's a public domain work, so anyone can take the code and make their own fixes or improvements to it. I cannot make any guarantee that Imgur won't alter their website to detect add-ons like this and force you back onto their terrible mobile site. The add-on offers no settings page or configuration options; if you need to turn it off, just disable it.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Cobb

Daily users:

Rating:

5.00

(2)

Version:

1 Last updated: 2020-03-03

Version code:

4974663

Creation date:

2020-03-03

Risk:

Permissions:

webRequest
webRequestBlocking
*://*.imgur.com/*
*://imgur.com/*

Size:

8.93KB

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-18

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 31,498 ▲ 1,221

Other rankings

#22 in desktop keyword 58 ▲ 1#33 in force keyword 24 ▲ 2

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Developed by:

Cobb

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/force-imgur-desktop/

User Reviews

Exactly what I needed and works perfectly!

by no*****, 2023-04-26

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Is Force Imgur Desktop Safe?

Risk impact

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Force Imgur Desktop requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Force Imgur Desktop has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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