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Welcome to HoverZoom

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Hover your mouse over photos to zoom on Facebook, MySpace, Wikipedia and more.



in 1.2: See all zoomable images on the Page Summary.
Accessable via right-click, keyboard shortcut (alt-space), or the optional toolbar button.


See the Preferences for Blacklist and other options. (Safari▸Preferences▸Extensions)

If there's a site you'd like to see supported, click the Contact link at the bottom of the page!

Here are the changes in the latest version:

    HoverZoom 1.2.9 December 21 2011
  • jcpenney.com, blogspot.com
  • Numerous minor fixes and optimizations
    HoverZoom 1.2.8 November 9 2011
  • Better Tumblr support
  • New Sites: rakuten.co.jp, QuickMeme.com, foodnetwork.com, picsarus.com, and more
    HoverZoom 1.2.7 October 7 2011
  • New Sites: vi.sualize.us, Google+, picplz.com, and others
  • Fixes for Facebook redesign
    HoverZoom 1.2.6 September 13 2011
  • More sites supported, fixed bugs with others
    HoverZoom 1.2.5 August 9 2011
  • "Fullsize" option in the Page Summary's size selector
  • More sites supported, fixed bugs with others
  • Again detects when image source is larger than the size it's being displayed at (this broke at some point)
    HoverZoom 1.2.1 May 10 2011
  • Support for LiveJournal Galleries
  • Support for Ning.com, Panoramio.com, 1X.com, Wired.com
    HoverZoom 1.2 March 23 2011
  • Page Summary - Shows all the images on the page that can be zoomed (activate via optional toolbar button, contextual menu, or the default shortcut alt-space)
  • Support data-src tag (used on MySpace)
  • Added Yelp.com
  • Viewer not hiding as it should in some circumstances
  • Viewer showing when the image could not be zoomed
  • Updated support for HotOrNot.com, MySpace.com, and other sites
    HoverZoom 1.1.13 Feb 17 2011
  • Supports sites in the AOL Network: Engadget.com, Joystiq.com, Tuaw.com, Autoblog.com, and more
  • Supports Badoo.com, Tagged.com
  • Hovering under content on some pages
  • Detection problems on some sites
    HoverZoom 1.1.12 Jan 10 2011
  • Optional setting to do more aggressive detection of zoomable images, may be prone to false positives and unexpected results. (Off by Default)
  • Various bug fixes for specific sites (Facebook and others)
    HoverZoom 1.1.11 Dec 18 2010
  • IMDb.com support
  • Incorrectly ignored some types of linked images
  • Better detects larger images in some circumstances
    HoverZoom 1.1.10 November 6 2010
  • Correct placement on pages with special CSS features applied
  • OkCupid, Facebook, YouTube previews
    HoverZoom 1.1.9 October 26 2010
  • Support for secure sites (HTTPS)
  • Support for OkCupid.com, Match.com
  • Viewer showing incorrectly when the page was zoomed out (View▸Zoom Out)
  • Viewer now hides on mouse click events (Should fix usability issues on some sites with interactive images)
  • Flickr.com, Facebook (HTTPS)
    HoverZoom 1.1.8 September 27 2010
  • Setting "Hold for Zoom" to require holding a modifier key to initiate zoom
  • Setting "Hold for Maximize" to define a modifier key to hold in order to maximize and center the current zoom (Defaults to Shift. Previously was hard-coded to use Control.)
  • Facebook.com, HotOrNot.com
    HoverZoom 1.1.7 September 7 2010
  • Domain blacklist to selectively disable HoverZoom
  • Much stricter image detection avoids more loading errors
  • Support for Wikipedia.org, deviantART.net
  • Facebook support
    HoverZoom 1.1.6 August 30 2010
  • Show loading progress
  • Option to show when loading errors occur (previously the viewer would simply hide)
  • An unintended data request was being fired every time the viewer was hidden
  • Various bug fixes
  • Facebook, better support for older images
    HoverZoom 1.1.5 August 29 2010
  • Settings for Delay Time and Zooming Links
  • Can zoom linked images (ie, text linking directly to a .jpg, .png, .gif)
  • YouTube.com support
  • Caption text erroneously picking up some of the page's text settings
  • Changes to digg.com
    HoverZoom 1.1 August 16 2010
  • Holding the Control key will freeze the viewer on the current image and center it as large as possible on the page
  • Hitting the Esc key will hide the viewer once it has appeared
  • HotOrNot.com, 2leep.com, C|NET (cnet.com) and some sites they own
  • Digg.com, FaceBook.com
  • Works in Facebook Photo Albums due to more dynamic parsing of content (now looks at parent nodes and background images)
  • Improved responsiveness, reduced update "jitter" as mouse moves
  • HoverZoom now disables its self for images being viewed individually (in their own tab/window)
  • Randomized injected content IDs to reduce possibility of conflicts

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