# Force Imgur Desktop

> 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.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/force-imgur-desktop](https://chrome-stats.com/d/force-imgur-desktop)

## Overview

- **ID:** `force-imgur-desktop`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Cobb
- **Category:** photos-music-videos,other
- **Daily users:** 12
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 1
- **Last updated:** 2020-03-03
- **First published:** 2020-03-03
- **Size:** 8.93 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/force-imgur-desktop/)

## Description

Force Imgur Desktop is a Firefox add-on designed for mobile users. It spoofs the user-agent on Imgur to force the use of the desktop site. With this add-on, you can access images directly without being redirected to album pages and view them at full resolution and quality.

## Rankings

- #30,325 — Overall
- #23 — desktop
- #32 — force

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

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

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows the extension to observe and analyze traffic in flight for the selected hosts.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

> Some risk analysis details are omitted from this free response. [Upgrade to view the full analysis](https://chrome-stats.com/pricing).

## Similar extensions and apps

- [Imgur direct link to album page redirect blocker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/imgur-redirect-blocker) — 167 users, 5.00 / 5
- [imgurredirect](https://chrome-stats.com/d/imgurredirect) — 1 users, 1.00 / 5
- [Imgur hi-resify](https://chrome-stats.com/d/imgur-hi-resify) — 6 users, 3.00 / 5
- [DP-Instagram](https://chrome-stats.com/d/dp-instagram) — 5,622 users, 3.83 / 5
- [Real Reddit Images](https://chrome-stats.com/d/real-reddit-images) — 25 users
- [rimgo (Farside)](https://chrome-stats.com/d/rimgo) — 46 users, 5.00 / 5
- [Imgur Unblocker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/imgur-unblocker) — 145 users, 3.00 / 5
- [Imgur Album Downloader](https://chrome-stats.com/d/imgur-album-downloader) — 1,020 users, 3.83 / 5
- [Reddit Direct Images](https://chrome-stats.com/d/reddit-direct-images) — 954 users, 4.20 / 5
- [Saving Private Imgur](https://chrome-stats.com/d/saving-private-imgur) — 2 users
- [mobile-friendly-reddit](https://chrome-stats.com/d/mobile-friendly-reddit) — 26 users, 3.43 / 5
- [Force Phone View](https://chrome-stats.com/d/force-phone-view) — 10 users, 5.00 / 5

---

Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/force-imgur-desktop)