gHacks technology news » firefox images http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:43:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Display Full Images That Are Posted As Links Or Thumbnails http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/26/display-full-images-that-are-posted-as-links-or-thumbnails/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/26/display-full-images-that-are-posted-as-links-or-thumbnails/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:44:40 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14772 firefoxChance is you have already stumbled upon a few websites that are posting images as links or thumbnails. The only way to view the full images would be to click on the links to be taken to another page or website where the images are then displayed in their normal resolution. The majority of users might have experienced those links on web forums, directories or blog posts.

Unlinker is a Firefox add-on that can display full images on the very same pages the image links or thumbnails have been posted thus eliminating the need to click on the images to view them in full resolution. There are two ways to make the add-on work after installation. It integrates itself in the right-click menu of the Firefox web browser. Users who want to view the full sized images on the active page may therefor right-click on that page and select the Unlinker option from the menu.

The second option is to customize one of the toolbars of the Firefox web browser and drag and drop the Unlinker add-on on one of them to be able to access the functionality with a left-click as well.

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Unlinker is available for the Firefox web browser. It can be directly downloaded from the Mozilla Firefox add-on repository.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/26/display-full-images-that-are-posted-as-links-or-thumbnails/feed/ 8 Firefox Image Navigator http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/07/firefox-image-navigator/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/07/firefox-image-navigator/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:38:39 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8135 Image browsing is still not a strength of most web browsers. Sure you can click on a picture, look at it and repeat the process to view all the images of a page but there are no controls to really navigate through all images on a page with lots of them. Some websites provide scripts with better options to browse the images without having to go back and forth or opening all the images in new tabs; That’s limited to those websites however and not an universal solution.

Image Navigator makes image browsing in Firefox comfortable. It is not the perfect solution and there surely will be some websites where the extension will fail to work properly. The reason for this is because Image Navigator is working with url sequences trying to find the next image or another folder containing images.

The extension adds one button to the Navigation Toolbar in Firefox which opens up a menu with two options that can also be selected with hotkeys. Next Image or Previous Image are the two choices offered. The hotkeys for those two functions are [ALT W] or [ALT Q].

Image Navigator prefetches the next image if one is found which means it only takes a fraction of a second usually to display the next image in line. The Firefox add-on is experimental meaning that it can only be downloaded after logging into the Mozilla website.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/07/firefox-image-navigator/feed/ 0 The image [...] cannot be displayed, because it contains errors http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/05/the-image-cannot-be-displayed-because-it-contains-errors/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/05/the-image-cannot-be-displayed-because-it-contains-errors/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 15:53:29 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4014 I recently ran into the error message “The image [...] cannot be displayed, because it contains errors” twice in the last day and I was wondering if it was related to my new computer or a coincidence because I never encountered that error message in Firefox before. Internet Explorer 7 is displaying the images fine and I have yet to install Opera 9.5 to test it with that browser as well but I suspect it will render it fine.

For anyone who wants to test the images in their browser, they are here and here. I was not able to come up with a solution yet, the second image was displaying fine after a few tries but it seems to be caught in an endless loading loop. The image is displayed completely but the loading bar is still loading something, not sure what it is. Saving the images and viewing them in Windows turns out to be working correctly.

A quick research seems to suggest that those images have been saved using CMYK encoding and not the usual RGB encoding. It turns out that Firefox is having problems displaying images that have been encoded this way and cannot display them properly, hence the error message The image [...] cannot be displayed, because it contains errors when trying to load such an image.

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