# View Background Image

> Adds "View Background Image" to the context menu.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/view-background-images](https://chrome-stats.com/d/view-background-images)

## Overview

- **ID:** `view-background-images`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** foooomio
- **Category:** web-development,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 1,360
- **Weekly downloads:** 20
- **Rating:** 3.74 / 5 (31 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.2.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-27
- **First published:** 2019-07-15
- **Size:** 68 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/view-background-images/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/foooomio/view-background-image/issues](https://github.com/foooomio/view-background-image/issues)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/view-background-images/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/view-background-images/privacy/)

## Description

The "View Background Image" Chrome extension enhances your browsing experience by adding a convenient "View background image" option to the context menu. Unlike default browser tools, this extension offers more powerful and flexible access to background images on web pages.

Installation requires enabling data access permissions and occasional reinstall after browser updates to ensure seamless functionality. Once set up, simply right-click to view background images in new tabs instantly. Released under the MIT License, it is an open-source tool designed for users who need quick and reliable image access with minimal effort.

## Rankings

- #2,789 — Overall
- #310 — Web Development
- #6 — hd backgrounds
- #8 — background
- #52 — image
- #71 — grok

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`

### Content script matches

- `*`
- ``

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users previously found the add-on simple and effective for viewing background images and appreciated its straightforward functionality. However, multiple reviews highlight that recent updates have caused the add-on to stop working properly, with issues like missing context menu options and failure to display images. Many users have reverted to an older version (2.10.4) for reliability. There is frustration over the lack of developer support for bug fixes, and some feel the recent changes have complicated the add-on, reducing its original simplicity.

### Pros

- Nearly always does exactly what it promises to do in most cases.
- Simple and functionally clear design in earlier versions.
- Long-term users found it handy and reliable before recent updates.
- Great extension overall with useful features.

### Cons

- Does not work properly after recent updates; many users revert to version 2.10.4.
- Fails to show background images sometimes, even when permissions are enabled.
- Context menu option to view background image is sometimes missing or greyed out.
- Developer appears unresponsive to bug fixes related to Firefox updates.
- Recent versions have added extra pages and texts, losing simplicity.

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