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Image Overlay Firefox Extension

Don´t you hate those sites that open a new page whenever you click on a thumbnail to open the large version of an image ? It gets really annoying and is time consuming. Firefox can now install the greased lightbox extension with requires greasemonkey for windows or creammonkey for macintosh and of course firefox.

Whenever you move your mouse over a thumbnail image the large version will be loaded and displayed. You still have the option to click it and it would load as usual.

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About the Author:Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook or Twitter.

Author: , Thursday March 16, 2006 -
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  1. John says:

    Actually that is what I want to happen. I hate those extra windows that pop up and if I want to continue to view the page I don’t want to have to go back to it. Another reason to use firefox.

    John

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