Barry's Image Zoom

Zoom in on any image in your browser.

What is Barry's Image Zoom?

Barry's Image Zoom is a user-friendly Chrome extension for enhancing your image viewing experience. Automatically resize images to fit the browser window, zoom in and out using your mouse wheel, quickly reposition, and easily reset images with a double-click. Notably, it supports JPG, PNG, and GIF file formats. However, it is limited to individual images and not entire web pages.

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By: Barry

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 2,000+

Rating: 2.44 (45)

Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2013-12-31)

Creation date: 2013-12-31

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Size: 57.94K

Ranking

# 20276 ▼ 78

Other rankings

#1170 in Art & Design ▼ 46 #76 in zoom keyword 44 ▲ 4 #78 in resize keyword 41 ▼ 2

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Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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Barry's Image Zoom is a simple but powerful tool for viewing images in your browser in unlimited detail. Images are automatically resized to fit the browser window and can be zoomed in even further with the mouse wheel. It works with any JPG, PNG or GIF file.

To use:

Images are automatically resized to fit the browser window.
Use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.
For fast zoom, hold down the shift key while zooming.
Click and drag the image to reposition it.
Double-click the image to resize it back to the browser window.

Tip:

Barry's Image Zoom only works with single images, not entire web pages. If the image you want is part of a web page, right click on it and select "Open image in new tab".

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Works as described for some users.
Provides the ability to zoom into images via mouse wheel.
Allows dragging of images after zooming.
Does not require many permissions compared to similar extensions.

Cons

Many users report that it does not work at all.
Zooming functionality is inconsistent; some say it zooms to the top-left rather than the cursor.
Some features have degraded, such as being constrained to the browser window.
Basic zooming algorithm with no image reshaping.

Most mentioned

Doesn't work.
Zooms to the top-left of the image rather than where the cursor is.
User complaints about it being outdated or not functioning.

Recent reviews

Works exactly as describe... no fluff, no extras, just picture zoom via mouse-wheel... Exactly what I wanted.

Dejunai Jackson, 2024-09-02

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