# OpenImage Viewer

> Automatically open images in an advanced viewer with zoom, fullscreen, editing tools, shortcuts, and Manifest V3 support.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `openimage-viewer`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Loveleen Cherub
- **Category:** appearance,photos-music-videos,tabs
- **Daily users:** 9
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.0.4
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-04
- **First published:** 2026-06-01
- **Size:** 9.32 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/openimage-viewer/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/lscherub/OpenImage-Viewer](https://github.com/lscherub/OpenImage-Viewer)

## Description

OpenImage Viewer is an advanced image viewer extension for Firefox and Chromium-based browsers that enhances the default image viewing experience.

When you open an image in a browser tab, OpenImage Viewer automatically loads it into a dedicated viewer with powerful tools for navigation, inspection, editing, and productivity.

Features
<ul><li>Automatic image-tab detection</li><li>Zoom in, zoom out, and reset zoom</li><li>Fullscreen viewing</li><li>Rotate and flip images</li><li>Image cropping tools</li><li>Built-in photo editor</li><li>Draw and annotate images</li><li>Watermarks, filters, and adjustments</li><li>Export as PNG, JPEG, JPG, or WEBP</li><li>Download images</li><li>Color picker</li><li>Image details and metadata viewer</li><li>Reverse image search</li><li>QR code scanner</li><li>Extract text from images (OCR)</li><li>Edit images with Photopea</li><li>Customizable toolbar and settings</li><li>Keyboard shortcuts for faster navigation</li></ul>
Modern Browser Compatibility

OpenImage Viewer includes additional compatibility improvements for modern browser extension platforms, including Manifest V3 support and enhanced image-tab detection.

The extension uses a hybrid detection system combining URL analysis, navigation listeners, and image-type detection to automatically recognize supported image tabs and open them in the viewer.

Open Source

OpenImage Viewer is a community-maintained open-source project inspired by the original BetterViewer project.

Source code, issue tracking, and development information are available on GitHub.

## Rankings

- #34,843 — Overall
- #149 — viewer
- #198 — ocr

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `contextMenus`
- `tabs`
- `webRequest`
- `webNavigation`

### Host permissions

- `https://*/*`
- `http://*/*`
- `file:///*`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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