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bijij / ViewImage

Extension to re-implement the "View Image" and "Search by image" buttons into google images.
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No Longer Working on Firefox. #266

Closed ThomasEricB closed 1 year ago

ThomasEricB commented 1 year ago

When choosing to view image, it loads the low quality version.

ruboard commented 1 year ago

confirm

ner00 commented 1 year ago

Is it just Firefox though? It seems to be the same in all browsers.

This may not be an issue with the extension though. In some cases, Google doesn't seem to be grabbing URL at all, instead it just embeds a base64 miniature, in which case I don't think there is anything that can be done to get the URL short of crawling the target page. Here is an example when it works fine: https://www.google.com/search?q=wikimedia+moon&source=lnms&tbm=isch#imgrc=e0MOONwtisYikM

If you inspect the image element, you can see the original target image, which is the same that is opened by the extension's button: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/FullMoon2010.jpg

In other instances, the result shows a bigger resolution info than the actual image embedded, and if you inspect the image element you'll not find any URL to the full sized image. Not sure if/when Google changed the way they crawl target images but it seems that it did change and a workaround might not be possible this time around.

vladimirgluten commented 1 year ago

I think this addon might be dead. No update in almost a year. Shame, really, it worked great when it worked, but now it's completely broken, no "view image" button appears in either browser

ner00 commented 1 year ago

It's working for some people, me included. Updates are only needed if the addon os broken. https://github.com/bijij/ViewImage/issues/254#issuecomment-1456071397