Hover Zoom
Enlarge thumbnails on mouse over. Works on many sites (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Reddit, Amazon, Tumblr, etc).
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
What is Hover Zoom?
Browse images galleries with ease: move the mouse cursor over thumbnails to view images in their full size without loading a new page. Pictures are automatically resized if they don't fit the window.
Animated example: http://imgur.com/dKWN8.gif
Works on many sites (potentially any site with direct links to image files), including these: • 4chan • Amazon • Baidu (??) • Bing • deviantART • eBay • Facebook • Flickr • Google (Google Images, Google+) • Imgur • MySpace • Outlook • Picasa Web Albums • Pinterest • Reddit • Taobao (???) • Twitter • Tumblr • VKontakte (?????????) • Wikipedia • Wordpress • Yahoo • YouTube
Options: • Support for video files (WebM, MP4) • Disable zooming for specific sites • Enable zooming only for specific sites (white list mode) • Adjustable delay and fading effect • Zoom images only when a specific key is held down • Semi-transparent zoomed images
As written at http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1t4ubn/hoverzoom_for_chrome_is_infected_with_malware/ , it seems to contain malware. Be careful!
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Supported Languages
- English
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vittor1o thinks Linkz.ai is an alternative to Hover Zoom- Ke4 thinks Linkz.ai is an alternative to Hover Zoom
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My First Chrome extension of image zoom
i find imagus a better alternative because it has more customization
This extension was one of the first one I ever had. It did have a problem with data collection before, but it is now revise. You can change it in the Advance tab in settings and uncheck anonymous usage statistics. Hopefully this can go back on it's feet.