Compare Chrome extensions: Imagus vs Hover Zoom+

Stats Imagus Imagus Hover Zoom+ Hover Zoom+
User count 500,000+ 400,000+
Average rating 4.49 4.00
Rating count 1,972 1,346
Last updated 2020-04-16 2024-04-11
Size 152.58K 1.48M
Version 0.9.8.74 1.0.215.1
Short description
Enlarge thumbnails, and show images/videos from links with a mouse hover. Zoom images/videos on all your favorite websites (Facebook, Amazon, etc). Simply hover your mouse over the image to enlarge it.
Full summary

There are plenty of settings which can be customized, and reviewing them is currently the best way to learn about what the extension is capable of.

Sections on the options page that may need explanation:

▪ Sieve An expandable set of site specific and general purpose rules for getting the larger image, media or other content.

▪ Grants List of user defined sites where the extension should and shouldn't work.

Hover your mouse over any image on the supported websites and the extension will automatically enlarge the image to its full size, making sure that it still fits into the browser window.

This is an open source version of the original HoverZoom extension which is now overrun by malware and deleted from store. In this version all spyware has been removed, many bugs were fixed and new features were added. It doesn't collect any statistics by default. The only permission it needs is to access data on all websites (to extract full images), and optional permissions to access browser history, download/save images or get tab urls for per-site configuration.

Sometimes sites change design and when it happens extension needs to be updated. Please report any issues with zoom not working by using Support tab or https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/issues page.