# PubMed Figure Preview

> Show figure thumbnails of open-access (OA/PMC) articles right in PubMed search results — scan papers visually as you search.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/pubmed-figure-preview](https://chrome-stats.com/d/pubmed-figure-preview)

## Overview

- **ID:** `pubmed-figure-preview`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** denghaowen
- **Category:** search-tools
- **Daily users:** 2
- **Version:** 0.2.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-09
- **First published:** 2026-06-06
- **Size:** 34 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/pubmed-figure-preview/)

## Description

When searching the literature, titles and abstracts aren't always enough — a figure is worth a thousand words.

PubMed Figure Preview shows each article's figure thumbnails right under every PubMed search result (for open-access / PMC articles). Click to enlarge the high-resolution figure together with its full figure legend, so you can judge at a glance whether a paper is worth opening.

Features:
• Inline figure thumbnails in the results list, scroll horizontally
• Click to enlarge: the high-res figure is shown with its full legend; use ← / → to browse all figures of the article; one click opens the original article
• Publisher preview (optional): for new articles not yet in PMC, tries to show the graphical abstract / first figure from the publisher's page
• Smooth performance: lazy-loading + local cache; figures auto-load after "Show more results", with a manual refresh in the popup
• Bilingual (English / 中文) UI; adjustable thumbnails-per-article and more

Privacy: runs entirely locally, collects no personal data, no ads, no tracking; figures and legends come from public NCBI / PubMed pages.

Note: figures and legends are available mainly for open-access (OA / PMC) articles; paywalled or very recent papers not yet in PMC may have none.

This is a third-party tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) / NCBI / PubMed; "PubMed" is a trademark of NLM.
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## Rankings

- #69,161 — Overall
- #135 — preview

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/*`

### Content script matches

- `pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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