We all like to get a little closer sometimes to pictures to see one thing or another. Maybe you are looking for Waldo? Who really knows. Zooming in Firefox isn’t exactly easy though. It isn’t a pretty interface. The Firefox extension, zoomFox fixes that problem.

So what is zoomFox all about? This extension adds functionality when zooming in and out on pictures you find on the Web. It adds a context menu selection for viewing graphics. You are also given advanced controls (such as thumb view, zoom, easy scroll and more) to make the job easier as well. This really comes in handy when you are looking at large pictures.

Here are some of the developer’s comments on zoomFox:

The main reason I wrote this; is because viewing big (more than 2500 pixels) images in Firefox sucks. zoomFox provides an easy way to zoom, but it also provides an easy way to scroll around using click+drag on the red box of the thumbnail or on the main image.

May not work with NoScript, since it uses Javascript on an HTML page (not in XUL) to do all the zoom/scrolling.

This Firefox extension is for versions .9 to 1.5 of the browser. If you want to download it and try it out, you can do so at the Mozilla Update Web site. Get a better look at those pictures! Just promise me you won’t zoom in on me too closly.

[tags]firefox,extensions,zoom,graphics[/tags]