gHacks technology news » image zoom http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Firefox And Thunderbird Image Zooming http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/07/firefox-and-thunderbird-image-zooming/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/07/firefox-and-thunderbird-image-zooming/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:56:33 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=15114 firefoxThe Firefox web browser comes with the ability to zoom in and out of websites. There is however no way of zooming only specific elements of a website which can be a problem if only specific elements such as images need to be zoomed. The Firefox and Thunderbird extension Image Zoom adds to the zooming functionality by providing the means to zoom in and out of images.

Image Zoom has been designed with simplicity in mind. A right-click on any image on a website will open a context menu after installation of the extension with options to zoom in and out of the selected image.

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Right-clicking and using the context menu is however not the only option to zoom images. Another possibility is to right-click and use the mouse wheel to zoom an image. That’s usually more comfortable than the context menu solution. Other options that are provided include page zooming, fitting an image to the screen size of the web browser or email client and custom zoom and dimension options.

Some add-ons can interfere with some of the options provided by the Image Zoom extension. Especially add-ons that make use of the mouse buttons, like the recently reviewed Multi Links add-on, can block some of the functions. Image Zoom offers some options to configure the mouse buttons that trigger the zooming. It can be downloaded from the Thunderbird or Firefox website.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/07/firefox-and-thunderbird-image-zooming/feed/ 4 Zoom In on Images in Firefox http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/13/zoom-in-on-images-in-firefox/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/13/zoom-in-on-images-in-firefox/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:03:10 +0000 Cheryl http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/13/zoom-in-on-images-in-firefox/ We’ve all experienced it. You’re browsing through the internet and you chance upon what looks like a nice picture. There’s just one problem. You can hardly see the details in the picture because it’s too small.

If you’re using Firefox, there’s a nifty little plugin that can help you out. It’s called Image Zoom and it does just that; zooms in on images. This tool may be small but it’s power packed in my opinion.

To begin with, you can change the size of any image from 10% to 400% of it’s original size. So, you can not only make an image bigger but also you can minimize a big image to fit in a particular size. Besides this, you have a custom zoom option, if you’re partial to a particular size. Another neat feature is the ability to enlarge an image to fit in a page, which is great for checking out details.

Access to Image Zoom is easy since the extension is one of the options when you right click an image. I won’t say Image Zoom is perfect. Enlarging an image doesn’t necessarily mean the image will be clearer, especially if the image was grainy to begin with. Still, this is one extension that’s worth having around as it’s really handy.

Have you heard of Image Zoom before? Do you know of any other ways to enlarge images in your browser itself.

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