Image Autosizer

Customize how images are displayed and controlled within your browser.

What is Image Autosizer?

Image Autosizer is a robust Chrome extension providing enhanced control over image files displayed in the browser. With features like various sizing modes, smooth panning, and background customization options, it offers a more comfortable and personalized browsing experience. The extension was first developed for Opera and now provides Chrome users with the same extra features missing in their default image viewing capabilities.

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Extension stats

By: k-mouse

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 4,000+

Rating: 4.13 (60)

Version: 3.4 (Last updated: 2017-02-03)

Creation date: 2017-02-03

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 42.63K

Ranking

# 15411 ▼ 43

Other rankings

#131 in Art & Design #58 in custom background keyword 22 ▲ 1 #163 in mouse keyword 41 ▼ 2 #221 in guide keyword 13 ▼ 8

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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Image Autosizer provides control over how image files are displayed in the browser window.

Features:

Several display modes, changing how the image scales to the window
Smooth/inertial panning
Custom background color
Optional checkerboard-background
Option to close image on long mouse press

Usage:

First, open up an image file
Click image to toggle the size
Double click to fill image to window
Press 'c' to temporarily change background color

User reviews

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Pros

Customizable
Fixes Chrome image resizing issue
Useful options for single and double clicking to change between scaling

Cons

Potential epilepsy inducing smiley face in settings
Issues with click/double click functionality
Info box disappears too quickly

Most mentioned

Fixes Chrome image resizing issue
Customizable
Issues with click/double click functionality
Info box disappearing too quickly

Recent reviews

I've used Firefox for decades. I like the fact that within moments, in Firefox, you can go into about:config and set browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing to false. Problem solved. This is the best I have found for Chrome based browsers but it's still not as good as the way Firefox handles large images. A huge issue is that unlike in Firefox where I can click on an image and drag it to my desktop, this extension actually prevents me from doing that and I have to turn it off. People were asking for this functionality in a locked and ignored request to the Chrome forum over ten years ago but Google have become very "Take it or Leave it" arrogant over the last few years. This is just one of the reasons why Chrome based browsers will never replace Firefox as my primary browser.

Stefan MacPherson, 2024-03-04

This should be chrome's default. WARNING TO OTHER USERS: this extension features a potential epilepsy inducing smiley face in the settings for no reason whatsoever.