Reviews for TIFF viewer
TIFF viewer by Jonas Schubert Erlandsson
Review by Firefox user 14634139
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 14634139, 6 years ago14 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17491218, 2 years agoAdd-on only displays the first (cover) page of a tiff. The add-on is not useful.
- Rated 1 out of 5by krklek, 4 years agoUnfortunately, this doesn't work in Firefox 84.0.1 ver., 64bit, Win7
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15912510, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15624838, 5 years agoThis was the easiest solution ever. Click to install the add-on, click to accept, and click the .TIFF -- BANG! It just works!!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 10244207, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14576927, 6 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14212446, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13573285, 7 years agoWorks great for single page tiff files. Shows only the first page of multipage tiff files. It would be a wonderful improvement if it starts supporting multipage tiff files as well.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThat is on the TODO list :) There is an issue tracking this over at github: https://github.com/my-codeworks/tiff-viewer-extension/issues/7 Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you for taking the time to write a review, much appreciated. If you have any ideas for improvements they would be equally welcome.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you for taking the time to write a review. Could you provide a bit more information about what you found lacking, especially in relation to the purpose and description of the plugin?- Rated 2 out of 5by skierpage, 7 years agoExtending Firefox to load all kinds of files is great, but if I File > Open a local WelcomeFax.tif file, Firefox dumbly asks what program I want to use to open it, not including "Preview in Firefox". I would expect this to work exactly the same as the PDF viewer in Firefox, making the browser and OS aware that Firefox can handle TIFF files and adding "TIFF file" to Preferences > Files and Applications. I suspect Firefox's crappy support for itself as a MIME type handler makes this stupidly difficult, even though it's a killer feature. Perhaps the code from JSONView would help, though its options only appear on its Add-on panel, not in Preferences > Files and Applications.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHi there. As you pointed out yourself this is not really a limitation of the extension as such but in how Firefox handles files loaded directly. This extension was written specifically to handle the case when a TIFF file was included in a page, and hence cause the web browser to make a request for such a file. When you load a file locally it doesn't cause such a request and the extension can not pick it up.
I will look into adding the ability to pick up direct TIFF file opens, it should be possible, so look for that in a future version :)
EDIT: I did look into it and extensions can not register file handlers, only applications can do that and applications can not do some of the other things that this extension needs, like intercept page requests. So this is a no go unfortunately.