Image Zoom

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Elettaria on March 1, 2009 · permalink

This is an excellent add-on, simple to use and doing a sterling job. It's useful when you want to buy something but the image is tiny, or when you're squinting at captchas, those security features where you have to copy the word which are often so hard to read.

There are a couple of minor snags, though:

1) When using the mouse scroll wheel to scroll the image larger or smaller, scrolling up will make the image smaller and down will make the image larger. This is counter-intuitive.

2) If the image is on a page with frames, enlarging it may cause some of the image to vanish under the frame. You can solve this by right-clicking and going to "View Image", which will bring the image up alone on a page, and then enlarging it as much as you like.

Bernie23: if you want to save your resized image, download some screencapping software and use that.