# Google image view image button

> Adds the view image button back to google image results

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/google-image-view-image-button](https://chrome-stats.com/d/google-image-view-image-button)

## Overview

- **ID:** `google-image-view-image-button`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** lappa
- **Category:** search-tools,appearance,other
- **Daily users:** 445
- **Weekly downloads:** 4
- **Rating:** 3.08 / 5 (48 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.4resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2018-02-16
- **Size:** 66 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/google-image-view-image-button/)

## Description

The Google Image View Image Button extension brings back the popular "View Image" button to Google image search results. By restoring this button, users can quickly access and download images directly without navigating through multiple pages. This tool simplifies image retrieval, enhancing productivity and user experience during image searches.

## Rankings

- #5,422 — Overall
- #9 — button for google
- #48 — hd image
- #57 — image
- #71 — hd images
- #79 — text-to-image

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users appreciated the add-on's simple functionality when it worked, but many report it no longer works due to recent Google image search changes or Firefox updates. There are consistent complaints about the button icon being too large and intrusive on the page layout. Some users desire more features like 'search by image.' Overall, the extension is effective only on certain versions and is overshadowed by interface and compatibility issues.

### Pros

- Used to work perfectly before Google changed image search interface.
- Currently works as intended on compatible versions.
- Simple and does its job when functional.

### Cons

- Doesn't work on latest versions of Firefox or after recent Google image search updates.
- The button icon is excessively large and breaks layout on some systems.
- Lacks additional functionality such as 'search by image'.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/google-image-view-image-button)