# Imagus

> With a simple mouse-over you can enlarge images and display images/videos from links.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `imagus`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Deathamns
- **Category:** photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 53,179
- **Weekly downloads:** 568
- **Rating:** 4.38 / 5 (909 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.9.8.74
- **Last updated:** 2020-04-13
- **First published:** 2014-02-13
- **Size:** 156 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/imagus/)
- **Website:** [https://www.reddit.com/r/Imagus/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Imagus/)

## Description

Imagus is a powerful Chrome extension designed to enhance your browsing experience by allowing quick image enlargement and video display through simple mouse-overs. With over 200 default rules supporting thousands of popular websites such as Reddit, Imgur, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and more, it ensures seamless media previews without the need to open a new tab.

Additionally, Imagus features a customizable 'Sieve' system to retrieve larger images or media, and 'Grants' settings that let users block or allow specific sites, offering greater control over your media preview preferences. The extensive options page provides flexibility, making Imagus highly adaptable to your browsing habits.

## Rankings

- #312 — Overall
- #14 — Photos, Music & Videos
- #1 — grant
- #2 — rule
- #4 — hd image
- #7 — image

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `*://*/*`
- `downloads`
- `history`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

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

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High 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 similar fingerprint to known malware: peimmnfefagcmjoaeagnonabodipfcba. Match ratio: 0.7586206896551724.

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## Review summary

Imagus is widely praised for fast, convenient image viewing across sites, with quick access to high-resolution images via keyboard shortcuts. Reviewers report it as essential and performance-friendly, including users migrating from Chrome. However, a minority raise privacy concerns and intrusive behavior, noting broad permission requests and noisy image popups as potential risks. A few site-specific issues are mentioned, but overall sentiment is positive and the extension is seen as a valuable browsing aid for image-rich tasks.

### Pros

- Extremely useful and essential for image viewing across websites.
- Instant access to max-resolution images with customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Fast and responsive, improving browsing workflow.
- Strong cross-browser appeal; popular with users switching from Chrome to Firefox.

### Cons

- Privacy concerns: intrusive behavior and broad permission requests raise trust issues.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/imagus)