Enhanced Image Viewer

Enhances the browser's default image viewer

What is Enhanced Image Viewer?

'Enhanced Image Viewer' is a Chrome extension that reallocates the browser's default image viewer. It provides additional scaling modes, easy image rotation, option to maintain scaling mode and rotation across images, and a customizable background color. It also displays image information and details about the scaling mode and rotation. Despite these enhancements, users can still engage the default browser zoom. Bugs and feature requests can be reported on its GitHub page.

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By: Sebastian Blask

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.21 (14)

Version: 1.1.1 (Last updated: 2020-03-03)

Creation date: 2020-03-03

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

<all_urls>
storage
webNavigation
webRequest

Size: 108.54K

Email: se*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 25657 ▼ 62

Other rankings

#469 in Art & Design ▲ 2 #25 in enhance keyword 36 ▼ 1 #51 in viewer keyword 63 ▲ 12

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Extension summary

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Enhanced Image Viewer

Enhances the browser's default image viewer with:

more scaling modes (configurable in the preferences - click toolbar button) to cycle through when left-clicking
easy rotation (in 90° steps) using l and r for left and right rotation respectively
scaling mode and rotation can be remembered so they are applied when opening other images
configurable background color
image information and information about scaling mode and rotation are briefly shown when opening an image and can be toggled by pressing i

User reviews

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Pros

Very simple and useful extension.
Provides image information and the ability to rotate images.
Multiple scaling modes available.
Ability to fit images to the browser window easily.
Overall positive user experience.

Cons

Issues with zooming functionality.
Missing mouse scroll to zoom in/out.
No option to save/convert images to formats like .jpg, .png, or webp.
Flicker between white and black backgrounds when opening images.
Missing option to set default zoom level for automatic fitting.

Most mentioned

Zooming issues and functionality.
Need for save/convert options.
Flicker issue from white to black.
Desire for a default zoom level setting.
Positive user experience overall.

Recent reviews

The option (tick box thingy) make it unusable while zooming the image.

Songib akuratz, 2022-04-12

Missing a mouse scroll to zoom in/out, and an option to save/convert image as .jpg, .png or webp

Sergio Martins, 2021-09-17

Really nice extension. If possible work on the flicker from white to black initially. It's more than just the flicker from opening a new page. Seems like first a white background is rendered and then the color is changed to black(what I chose) instead of black directly