View Image Button

View Image Button

Bring back the view image button for Google image search results.

What is View Image Button?
The 'View Image Button' is a Chrome extension that reinstates the view image feature in Google's image search. This utility tool serves as a switch, enabling users to quickly add or remove the view image button, allowing direct access to images from search results. Furthermore, it strives to render the image in the highest resolution possible and opens it in a new tab. The extension features a bug reporting mechanism available on its homepage.
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By: Muyor
Users: 10,000+
Rating: 3.98 (46)
Version: 0.1.5 (Last updated: 2023-09-11)
Creation date: 2020-03-24
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 28.62K
URLs: Website
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Not available on Firefox
View Image Button
View Image Button (v0.1.5)
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Summary

View Image Button (for Google™ Search) is an extension that lets you add a button to the Google image search page to view images directly.

The toolbar button serves as an ON|OFF switch to quickly add or remove the button. Please note that clicking the view image button will open the image in a new tab. Moreover, this extension tries to find and open the image in the maximum available resolution (please wait for the image to completely load and render before pressing the view image button).

To report bugs, please fill out the bug report form on the add-on's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/view-image-button.html).

User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Works as intended
  • Easy to enable and use
  • Reliable replacement for other similar extensions
Cons
  • Button placement can be odd
  • Doesn't work for some users or on some browsers
Most mentioned
  • Works as intended
  • Does what it says
  • Button placement is odd
  • Still working in 2022
  • Replacement for the 'View Image' extension
Recent reviews
Only works for images that can be rightclicked and opened in a new tab. But if an image is loaded in a lower resolution via rightclick, it will load in lower resolution via the button too.
by Anton Krasnoselscky Anton Krasnoselscky, 2024-04-23

by 3 WGH 3 WGH, 2024-01-17

Works on chrome but not on other chromium browsers for me :(
by Pranav Iyer Pranav Iyer, 2024-01-26
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Safety
Risk impact

View Image Button is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

View Image Button has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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