Here, are 5 free plugins to zoom images on Firefox. Zooming images on Firefox browser is not easy without plugin. If you want to zoom the any image without plugin, then you need to zoom full webpage on Firefox browser. Zooming full webpage to zoom a single image on the webpage does not make a good sense. Firefox Adds-On Store has many plugins which help you to zoom images without zooming the whole webpage which you have accessed on Firefox browser.
In this article, we will discuss about 5 best plugins to zoom images on Firefox. Plugins include Image Zoom plugin; one of the most popular one, ImageTweak: zoom/rotate images and videos, Thumbnail Zoom Plus plugin to zoom Thumbnail images, and more.
ImageTweak: zoom/rotate images and videos:
ImageTweak is a free Firefox plugin to zoom images on Firefox browser. This Firefox plugin is a simple image zooming plugin. The plugin works has very simple options. You just need to install and enable the plugin on your Firefox browser and leave the rest to the plugin. Whenever you open any webpage that has images, the plugin starts working. Now to zoom in and zoom out the image. After that, just press Ctrl from your keyboard and right click from your mouse. The image file will open in the same tab with no background. Put the mouse cursor on the image and press Ctrl + scroll the mouse wheel up and down to zoom in and zoom out the image. You can also double-click or press space bar to cycle through full-view.
Image Zoom:
Image Zoom is one of the most popular free plugin in Firefox adds-on store to zoom images on Firefox browser. Image zoom is a simple plugin that allows you to zoom images on Firefox browser with controls of mouse. Open any image file on Firefox browser and then control zooming of images with your mouse. To zoom in and zoom out the images, you need to hold the right key of the mouse and then scroll the mouse wheel up and down. This will allow the plugin to zoom in and zoom out the images on Firefox browser. You can also open the options by right click on the image and then zoom in and zoom out the images on Firefox browser. The plugin even allows you to rotate the image to right, left, and 180°.
Thumbnail Zoom:
Thumbnail Zoom is a free Firefox plugin to zoom images on Facebook, Twitter, or Amazon. Thumbnail Zoom plugin works when the images these websites are in the form of thumbnails. You just have to put the mouse cursor or hover the mouse cursor over the image to zoom in the image. Bring back the mouse cursor to zoom out the image. According to the developer of Thumbnail Zoom, the plugin works for Facebook, Twitter, or Amazon images. But when I tried to zoom Google images, the plugin worked on that too. The plugin zoomed the Google images like it was zooming on my Facebook and Twitter images. You can download and install the plugin to test it. Thumbnail Zoom is a nice plugin that makes your image zooming easier and faster.
Thumbnail Zoom Plus:
Thumbnail Zoom Plus is a another free Firefox plugin to zoom images accessed in Firefox browser. You can zoom images from any webpage when the images are in the form of thumbnail or there is any one image. The plugin works sane as Thumbnail Zoom plugin as discussed above. You just have to hover the mouse cursor over the image which you have accessed on your Firefox browser. With this Thumbnail Zoom Plus plugin, you can select the websites on which you want the plugin to automatically activate and zoom images. This settings option is one of the best part of the plugin which I liked the most. Apart from this, you can also head to options menu for more options which can be customized to set a particular hotkey to zoom the image.
Full Screen Image Viewer:
Full Screen Image Viewer is a free Firefox plugin that plays a normal image into full screen mode on Firefox browser. This plugin works a bit different from all other image zooming plugins as discussed above. After installing the plugin, open any image in your Firefox browser. Now right-click on the image accessed on the browser and then click on “Full screen image viewer” option at the end of the options list. The image will be then played in full screen mode with some advanced picture tools on Firefox browser. You will find a lens button in the picture tools which allows you to zoom the image more than the full screen size of the image on Firefox browser. The zooming level is very less which totally depends upon the full screen size of the image. Press “Esc” button to go back to the image page on your Firefox browser.
If you find any other good Firefox plugin to zoom images, then do let us know in comments.
Also, if you are using Google Chrome browser, then don’t forget to check out free Chrome extensions to zoom images reviewed by us.
