PhotoShow

Name: PhotoShow
Rating: 4.5833 (96 reviews)
Author: Vincent W.

Hover over to zoom in and view high-definition images. Instantly enlarge visuals, crafted for all your favorite websites and you.

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PhotoShow is a powerful Chrome extension designed to enhance your browsing experience by allowing instant preview and download of high-definition images. By simply hovering your mouse over image thumbnails, PhotoShow fetches larger images from over 300 popular websites including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Instagram, Wiki, and YouTube.

It offers customizable hotkeys for easy image navigation, flipping, rotation, scrolling, saving, and copying. With flexible settings like website toggles, activation modes, and different viewer sizes, users can tailor their image preview experience. The extension respects user privacy, operates locally, and only requests necessary permissions for preview and downloads. Automatic sync ensures consistent settings across devices.

Photography Productivity Utilities

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Daily users:

Rating:

Version:

4.61.0 Last updated: 2025-03-11

Version code:

5907934

Creation date:

2019-06-09

Risk:

Permissions:

contextMenus
declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
downloads
scripting
storage
tabs
webNavigation
webRequest

Host permissions:

*://*/*

Size:

293.94K

Email:

vi*****@gmail.com

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Updated:

14 hours ago

Ranking

# 1,536 ▲ 24

Other rankings

#69 in Shopping

#171 in Social & Communication ▲ 1

#247 in Photos, Music & Videos ▲ 2

#3 in photo keyword 39

#4 in photon dex keyword 5

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Other platforms

PhotoShow (v4.66.0)

100,000+ 4.50

(353)

PhotoShow (v4.66.0)

300,104+ 4.30

(243)

User reviews

PhotoShow is widely appreciated as a powerful image preview extension, seen as a great replacement for Imagus. Users value its detailed image viewing and responsive developer support. However, multiple users report issues including poor performance causing slow page loads, failure to work on sites like Instagram and Facebook, bugs affecting image downloads after updates, and lack of fine-grained control over site-specific activation. Permission errors and unclear instructions also cause frustration. Overall, while praised for its core functionality, the extension needs improvements in stability, compatibility, and user control features.

Pros

Excellent replacement for the Imagus extension.
Allows enhanced viewing of images, making it useful for users wanting to examine pictures in detail.
Developer is responsive and provides updates addressing user feedback.
Offers a silent mode feature that improves user experience on some sites like Bilibili.
Highly praised for its functionality and considered a valuable tool by users.

Cons

Performance issues causing slow loading on websites like YouTube.
Does not work properly on popular sites such as Instagram and Facebook.
Some updates introduce bugs like incorrect loading of high-resolution image URLs, affecting workflows involving image downloaders.
Lacks options to enable or disable functionality on specific sites, leading to unwanted behavior.
Permission errors and lack of clear guidance when plugin doesn't have required permissions on certain pages.

Recent reviews

by Firefox user 18964134, 2025-05-05

by Dan, 2025-04-08

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Extension safety

Risk impact

PhotoShow requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood

PhotoShow is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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