Chrome And Firefox Extension Brings Back View Image Button to Google Search

Since its launch, Google Image search has always allowed users to view images without passing through the websites where they were hosted. Just with mounting pressure from publishers over copyright theft and traffic circumvention, Google removed the power to view images and instead is now giving a Visit option which takes users to the pages or sites hosting the images.

While it does protect copyright of photographers and content creators, it can exist irksome for casual users who are collecting photos for their Pinterest walls or to share over Facebook. For this bunch, the removal of the View Image button is certainly an annoyance.

And every bit enough people expressed their unhappiness about the move, developers jumped on the chance to create the killer app to fill up this gap. New extensions for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox allow users to bring back the View Prototype push button.

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Called "Google Search "View Image" Button", brings back the View Image push. Currently, the extension is bachelor for both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers (called Add-ons on Firefox).

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The all-time part of using the extension/add-ons is that once yous install and enable it, you don't take to practice annihilation. The extension will automatically create the View Image button for all the images. That said, since Google is bang-up downwardly on image piracy, information technology might be possible that the company will remove the extension from the Chrome Web Store, which information technology monitors. Withal, chances of the Add-on'due south removal from Mozilla Firefox'due south library are minimal. In any instance, till Google decides to remove the said extension, you tin withal relish the View Epitome button on Chrome.

Download Google Search "View Image" Push: For Google Chrome / For Mozilla Firefox