# View Image Context Menu Item

> Adds View Image to the image context menu.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/view-image-context-menu-item](https://chrome-stats.com/d/view-image-context-menu-item)

## Overview

- **ID:** `view-image-context-menu-item`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Anton G
- **Category:** photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 3,852
- **Weekly downloads:** 25
- **Rating:** 4.77 / 5 (65 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.4
- **Last updated:** 2024-10-15
- **First published:** 2021-04-02
- **Size:** 73 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/view-image-context-menu-item/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/agoupinets/view-image-context-menu-item](https://github.com/agoupinets/view-image-context-menu-item)

## Description

The **View Image Context Menu Item** Chrome extension restores the classic "View Image" functionality directly into your browser's image context menu. It adds convenient options to view images, videos, and audio files right from a right-click menu. With versatile default actions—including opening in the same tab, new windows, or background/foreground tabs—you gain flexible ways to interact with media files without navigating away.

This extension requires permissions to modify HTTP headers to allow hotlink-compatible access, ensuring it works with sites that restrict direct image linking. For advanced users, it offers an extensive `userChrome.css` customization allowing you to hide default menu items like "Open Image in New Tab" and reorder context menu entries for a cleaner and more logical browsing experience.

Quick and easy to configure, this add-on revives missing media context features while granting you control over how you view images, videos, and audio inline within your browsing workflow.

## Rankings

- #1,394 — Overall
- #231 — Photos, Music & Videos
- #2 — menu
- #4 — context menu
- #4 — item
- #21 — text-to-image

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `menus`
- `<all_urls>`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `storage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low 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 broadly praise the add-on as essential and useful, especially for restoring the original View Image menu item and improving image viewing. The main complaints center on the top placement of the menu item, inconsistent behavior on some image hosts (Imgur, Reddit), occasional breakages after Firefox updates, and the need for CSS tweaks due to deprecated selectors.

### Pros

- Very useful and essential addon that improves image viewing experience.
- Restores the original 'View Image' context menu item after Mozilla removed it.
- Generally works well across many sites, providing a better image viewing experience.
- Keeps user control over opening images in the same tab or a new tab.

### Cons

- View Image entry sits at the top of the context menu, making it intrusive and hard to reach on some pages.
- Not working as expected with certain image hosts (Imgur, Reddit), causing the link to open a page instead of the image.
- Can break after Firefox updates and may require fixes, as noted by users.
- Some CSS tweaks rely on deprecated selectors and require manual fixes to maintain correct item placement.

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