# Imagus mod

> With a simple mouse-over you can enlarge and display images/videos from links. Now with optional permissions, more features.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/imagus-mod](https://chrome-stats.com/d/imagus-mod)

## Overview

- **ID:** `imagus-mod`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** TFW
- **Category:** photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 2,693
- **Weekly downloads:** 24
- **Rating:** 4.25 / 5 (57 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.10.15
- **Last updated:** 2023-09-21
- **First published:** 2023-03-11
- **Size:** 344 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/imagus-mod/)
- **Website:** [https://www.reddit.com/r/Imagus](https://www.reddit.com/r/Imagus)

## Description

Imagus Mod enhances your web browsing by allowing you to instantly zoom into images and videos simply by hovering your mouse over links. Unlike the original, this version gives you control over permissions, enabling them only when necessary for enhanced privacy. It offers a range of new features including customizable hotkeys, a custom download path, and the ability to import/export configurations to tailor your experience.

With over 200 prebuilt sieves supporting thousands of popular sites like Reddit, Imgur, Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter, Imagus Mod intelligently fetches larger media content effortlessly. The extension also provides flexible settings such as dimming pages while zooming, manual or automatic sieve updates, and various themes for the options page, all designed to improve user experience and streamline media viewing.

## Rankings

- #1,830 — Overall
- #312 — Photos, Music & Videos
- #53 — permissions
- #58 — permission
- #59 — hd image
- #76 — grant

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `*://*/*`
- `storage`
- `menus`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`
- `*`
- `duckduckgo.com`

## 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 praise Imagus Mod for enabling quick access to full-size images and for being essential to regular browsing, with some expressing strong positive sentiment. However, reliability is a recurring issue: it frequently stops working, may require reinstallation, and is viewed as abandonware by several reviewers. Site compatibility and performance concerns (slowness, inconsistent behavior) further hinder consistency. Overall, strong usefulness is tempered by maintenance and stability problems.

### Pros

- Quick access to full-size images for downloading and saving.
- Essential for regular browsing and highly valued by some users.
- Positive sentiment and enthusiasm toward the add-on, including users switching from Chrome to Firefox because of it.

### Cons

- Unreliable and inconsistent operation; it often stops working or fails.
- Abandonment and lack of ongoing maintenance; described as abandonware by multiple reviewers.
- Requires frequent reinstall or reconfiguration to regain function.
- Performance drawbacks, including being slower than the original and site compatibility issues.

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