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View Image Context Menu Item by Anton G

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Review by Milan
by Milan, a year ago
Works mostly great. Question: can something be done about reddit images? Simply opening image URL in new tab doesn't work, it opens reddit page with image which means image cannot be easily zoomed in.

Edit: update is working as described in the reply. Thank you

Developer response

posted a year ago
Playing around with it, reddit seems to utilize the Accept header, which with the add-on did not tamper. By default it was accepting "text/html" before any other mime types. Altering the Accept header to instead specify media types first seems to work with reddit at this point. I've updated the add-on (version 3.3) with an option, enabled by default, to override the Accept header for this compatiblity.
62 reviews
  • by Mertsch, 3 months ago
    So useful, does not work in EVERY case, but in so many, that it's really an improvement.
  • by Firefox user 18575513, 3 months ago
    Every time I click to drag the image around, the zoom resets. It's impossible to use. If you fixed that, it'd be the best image zoom addon available.

    Developer response

    posted 3 months ago
    This behavor - clicking on a zoomed in/out image resetting zoom to 100% - is default Firefox behavior for images (similar to how the image is drawn centered on the page and on a dark gray background). Using the built-in "open image in new tab" has the same behavior.

    The addon does not have control the browser's rendering/behavior of the image, all it does it just open the image. It's unlikely that add-ons could alter the zoom behavior of the browser, at least not without some very hacky workarounds liable to break between firefox updates.

    At this point, I suspect your best bet is to file a ticket on bugzilla, as this sounds like its a UX issue for touch-based pinch-zoom and panning of an image accidentally causing a click event to reset the zoom level. Sorry.
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  • by Firefox user 15094302, 2 years ago
    Very helpful. I have no clue why the original menu item was removed, but this add-on restores it without causing any issues. Thank you!
  • by nyuu, 2 years ago
    The CSS provided in the description uses now-deprecated selectors so your users' view image button is going to be moved back to the middle of the items instead of the top. If people are reporting vague "errors"; this is why.

    Below is a corrected userChrome setup for the affected portions:

    menuitem[id*="view-image-context-menu-item"] {order: -1 !important;}
    menuitem[id*="view-video-context-menu-item"] {order: -1 !important;}
    menuitem[id*="view-audio-context-menu-item"] {order: -1 !important;}
    #contentAreaContextMenu {display: flex; flex-direction: column-reverse;

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Thanks for the heads up; looks like I was behind the times on my Firefox updates. I've updated to 113 and saw it broke my menu as well.

    I've updated the the userChrome in description to start using order instead of the deprecated moz box ordering. Though in my testing i did not see any effects of flex-direction: column-reverse so i have left it out.
  • by Aadolf Kärki, 2 years ago
  • by Firefox user 16596123, 2 years ago
    worked great until a recent MANDATORY update from firefox. I fucking hate firefox but this extension is good
  • by Tubelerczyk, 2 years ago
    Not work!

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Can you elaborate on what is not working please?
  • by ZedEdge, 2 years ago
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  • by k-rock, 3 years ago
    Is there any way we can make "view image" not be fixed at the very top? It gets in the way of "Open Link in New Tab". For those kind of pages I rather have it in the third section of the Menu where "Open Image in New Tab" would be.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Yes it can be done through userChrome.css

    See this thread: https://github.com/agoupinets/view-image-context-menu-item/issues/14

    Firefox does not give any nice way for developers to interact with the menu when writing the add-on, so to rearrage it you effectively need to order it by hand.
  • by Firefox user 13630698, 3 years ago
    Thanks for doing this, I can't believe they changed something that was working perfectly fine... the only thing I've trouble with is that I can't figure out how to change it's position from the top to lower ones since I tend to right-click the thumbnail and open vids in another tab.

    EDIT: That thread was what I was looking for, thanks again :)

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    If you mean the context menu ordering, by default addon menu items are listed at the bottom. By messing with UserChrome.css you can make them appear in a custom order.

    In the addon description i have some basic CSS to always list it first in the context menu, but if you want to have better control over the ordering, check this thread: https://github.com/agoupinets/view-image-context-menu-item/issues/14

    And also of note that in the add-on preferences there are options to change the left/middle/shift-click behavior of the context menu item if desired.
  • by Firefox user 13689361, 3 years ago
  • by BlohoJo, 3 years ago
    Does not work with imgur... expected behavior is selecting the "View Image" from the context menu opens the image itself, but actual behavior is it opens the page for the image on the imgur website. So for example, it opens "//imgur.com/xxxxxxx" instead of "//i.imgur.com/xxxxxxx.jpg".

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    i am unable to replicate this in my own testing; i appear to be able to correctly open both image and video media using this addon when viewing imgur posts (correctly loads i.imgur.com/... url). if you can replicate this, can you please give a list of detailed steps (preferably open an issue on github as reviews don't support conversations well)?
  • by asg aesgasgea sg, 3 years ago
    kinda sad that one needs an addon for some basic function. shame on you firefox :P
  • by Atant, 3 years ago
    Очень нужная вещь, но пока недоработанная. Нет перелистывания изображений, открывает изо в том же окне, потому глючит возврат на страницу.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    can you please elaborate on the issue? im not sure i understand what doesn't work correctly. (starting an issue on github would be ideal)
  • by Firefox user 16900801, 3 years ago
    Replaces the old functionality well enough. I did change the userChrome entries to hide the icon though to "visibility: hidden" instead of "display: none" as that moved the text all the way to the left edge of the context menu. In case anyone has a similar problem.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    thats a good point - i've been writing the CSS against the Proton interface, but looks like its not compatible with the old UI; in the old UI it needs to be "visibility: hidden" or offsets the text too far left, and in the new UI it needs to be "display: none" otherwise the text remains offset too far right.

    i should make a note of that on the description