PhotoShow by Vincent W.
Hover to zoom and view high-definition images. Instantly enlarge visuals, crafted for all your favourite websites—and for you.
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About this extension
PhotoShow is a tool for browsing and downloading high-definition images by hovering mouse on image thumbnails, working on most websites and carefully crafted for over 300 popular ones of your daily use, including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Instagram, Wiki, YouTube, etc.
● HOTKEYS
● SETTINGS
PhotoShow comes with a rich set of settings designed to adapt to your browsing needs, from customising how the image viewer appears, to adjusting controls, shortcuts, and behaviours. Whether you prefer a clean, distraction-free interface or a feature-packed experience, PhotoShow lets you fine-tune the viewer to suit your style.
Key options include:
For more information, please refer to the Options page (global settings) and PhotoShow’s popup window (site-specific settings).
● HOTKEYS
- Viewer control:
Esc: Close viewer
X: Suspend viewer while held
Space: Switch to reading mode while held
A / F / L / M / P: Switch view mode
V: Toggle between last two used view modes - Image control:
Shift + Ctrl + ← / →: Rotate image anticlockwise/clockwise
Alt + Ctrl + ← / → / ↑ / ↓: Flip image horizontally/vertically
← / → / ↑ / ↓: Scroll image left/right/up/down
PgUp / PgDn: Scroll image up/down by page
Home / End: Scroll image to the top/bottom - Image actions:
Tab: Open HD image in new tab
S: Save HD image
C: Copy HD image
Alt + C: Copy HD image address
Shift + C: Copy image caption
● SETTINGS
PhotoShow comes with a rich set of settings designed to adapt to your browsing needs, from customising how the image viewer appears, to adjusting controls, shortcuts, and behaviours. Whether you prefer a clean, distraction-free interface or a feature-packed experience, PhotoShow lets you fine-tune the viewer to suit your style.
Key options include:
- Whitelist Mode: Disable PhotoShow globally, then enable per site with its popup toggle.
- Viewer Trigger: Require an assist key press to show the viewer.
- Thumbnail Types & Viewer Exceptions: Control which thumbnails trigger the viewer.
- Viewer Positions: Default is beside the thumbnail, but you can allow fullscreen by choosing "centre".
- Image Info Display: Show captions, dimensions, formats, or file sizes.
- New Tab Opening Behaviour: Choose whether new image tabs open in the foreground or background.
- Transition Animation: Smooth animations, or reduce/disable them.
- Viewer Colour Scheme: Choose either "light" or "dark" theme for the viewer.
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Enable/disable specific shortcuts.
- Image Download: Customise file names with placeholders (e.g. "my images/<H>/<c>").
- Assistance & Enhancements: Extra tools like marking viewed images or enabling/disabling context menu items.
- Settings Management: Export/import your settings to transfer between devices, or reset either global or site-specific settings.
For more information, please refer to the Options page (global settings) and PhotoShow’s popup window (site-specific settings).
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Permissions and data
Required permissions:
- Extend developer tools to access your data in open tabs
- Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history
- Access browser tabs
- Access browser activity during navigation
Optional permissions:
- Input data to the clipboard
- Access your data for all web sites
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- Version
- 4.86.0
- Size
- 856.03 kB
- Last updated
- 3 days ago (19 Jan 2026)
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