Imgur, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Amazon, Tumblr etc.

It supports any site which links directly to image files e.g. The extension works straight away – just hover over a thumbnail to see it in action. It also let you quickly save a full-size image, without the need to open it first, via a Hotkey – just hover over a thumbnail and press ‘s’ to save the full-size image to your Chrome Download folder (the standard right click and ‘Save image as’ option would only save the thumbnail).ĭownload – download from Chrome Web Store here. The example below shows a full-size image popup of an Imgur thumbnail: Full size image popup This full-size image remains visible until you move the mouse outside of the thumbnail. time you need to hover over the thumbnail before the full-size image is displayed (0.1 seconds by default).

Hover Free lets you just hover your mouse over a thumbnail and it will display a full-size image popup – you can configure the delay i.e.

Existing users of Hover Zoom could show their disapproval of unethical practices by removing the extension and switching to Hover Free instead. Hover Free is a forked (identical but with these bad bits removed) free and open source alternative. Hover Zoom was recently caught introducing unethical features (injecting adverts and affiliate links into webpages you view, tracking your browsing activity) ‘by the backdoor’ – see the warning here. Important: there is a good reason to use Hover Free and not Hover Zoom (the extension upon which it is based). There is no Chrome version of TZP but there is a very close, and equally useful, equivalent – Hover Free for Chrome. This is all very fine if you only need to zoom into a couple of thumbnails per page but what if you want to view lots of full size images? That’s an awful lot of clicking back and forth…Įarlier we looked at Thumbnail Zoom Plus (TZP) for Firefox – a powerful image zoom add-on that does a great job of displaying a full-size image popup as you hover over a thumbnail.

To view a full image you would click the thumbnail (which may load in its own tab) then have to click Back to return to the original page (or perhaps click on a close ‘x’ icon). Thumbnails are a handy way to view lots of images in one go – sites like Amazon, Imgur, Reddit, Twitter and Google Images make heavy use of thumbnails.

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