View background image

Adds a "open background image in new tab" menu item. Finds closest element to the clicked area that has a background image.

What is View background image?

'View background image' is a Chrome extension that adds the functionality of opening a background image in a new tab, directly from a web page. It identifies the closest element to the clicked area that has a background image and enhances your browsing experience. This extension is always visible, albeit the presence of a background image. The open-source and MIT-licensed extension invites contributions.

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By: Espen Hovlandsdal

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 2.85 (41)

Version: 1.0.3 (Last updated: 2016-08-07)

Creation date: 2016-08-07

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

contextMenus
<all_urls>

Size: 7.80K

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 23431 ▼ 94

Other rankings

#2947 in Developer Tools ▲ 8 #9 in background keyword 21 ▲ 5 #294 in image keyword 76 ▲

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Summary

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Adds a new menu item to web pages - "open background image in new tab". Will try to find the closest element to the clicked area that has a background image.

Tries to mirror Chrome's own "open image in new tab"-functionality, but currently there seems to be no way in Chrome extensions to show a context menu item based on the return value of a function, so currently it is always shown, regardless of the presence of a background image.

This extension is open-source and MIT-licensed. Source code can be found at https://github.com/rexxars/view-background-image - contributions are welcome.

User reviews

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Pros

Opens full image in new tab
Only opens the image selected not multiple
Small extension size

Cons

Does not work for some users
Requires tab/page to be reloaded for functionality
Only retrieves partial URL of background image in some cases

Most mentioned

Need to reload the page/tab after installation
Does not work for some users
Opens full image from background in new tab

Recent reviews

Perfect. Right-click on any image on a website and choose "Open background image in a new tab." A new tab opens with the full graphic just as advertised. If your image DOES NOT OPEN in a new tab it is not because this "View background image" extension DOES NOT WORK! It is because you are trying to right-click and open an image that has an overlay on top of it. Most overlays are invisible and may link to some other website. This "View background image" extension works in the latest version of Chrome. Before "View background image" extension works you MUST CLOSE and re-OPEN Chrome!

Rondo Longo, 2023-10-09

It doesn't work

Pongsatond Trechinapong, 2022-11-22

редковато работает 🤬 но значок стильный

Stepan Semchyonok (semchs3000), 2022-02-11

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Safety

Risk impact

View background image may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.