# Viewhance

> Additional functionality for the browser's default image and video viewer.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `viewhance`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Deathamns
- **Category:** photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 1,198
- **Weekly downloads:** 18
- **Rating:** 4.57 / 5 (56 ratings)
- **Version:** 2022.924.1640
- **Last updated:** 2022-09-24
- **First published:** 2014-06-28
- **Size:** 390 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/viewhance/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/Deathamns/Viewhance/issues](https://github.com/Deathamns/Viewhance/issues)

## Description

Viewhance is a powerful Chrome extension that enhances your browser's default image and video viewing experience. It offers versatile features such as multiple sizing modes, mouse wheel zooming, and content centering. Users can rotate or flip media easily with shortcuts or a floating menu.

Additional functionalities include custom CSS styling, dynamic tab titles showing media info, and quick sending of URLs to services like reverse image search. Viewhance supports advanced streaming formats (DASH, HLS, MSS), extracts frames from animated images, and handles SVG and data URIs. It also enables forced inlining to view media directly and provides options to open images from web pages with shortcuts. This extension is highly customizable, making media consumption effortless and enjoyable.

## Rankings

- #2,980 — Overall
- #21 — function
- #123 — enhance
- #138 — cursor
- #138 — cursors
- #170 — handle

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

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

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High 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

Viewhance is praised for enhancing image viewing and ease of access through shortcuts, leading some users to switch back to Firefox. However, the archived Github repo limits support, and some functions need a browser restart to work effectively. Chrome users miss its availability.

### Pros

- Provides an enhanced image viewing experience.
- Supports quick image opening via right-click or shortcuts.
- Users switched to Firefox specifically to use this add-on.

### Cons

- Github repository is archived, preventing issue reporting.
- Some features require browser restart to function properly.
- Not available for Chrome users, causing disappointment.

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