Activate full zoom not working

[drhouse]

Describe the bug The following hotkey in the options menu does not zoom any picture regardless of which key it's mapped. "Activate full zoom - When this key is held down, the picture is displayed using all available space. Useful for high resolution pictures only."

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to https://www.google.com/search?q=lakes
2. Hover over the first lake image
3. Hold hotkey 'Z' down, which is the default mapping for 'Activate full zoom'

Expected behavior Some sort of zoom effect should take place.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10
• Browser: Chrome x64
• Version: 85.0.4183.83

[GrosPoulet]

Hi Doctor That's because in some cases HZ+ does not find any bigger version of picture being hovered. So it may just display the same picture, this is not an issue with key mapping. In your Google Images example, zoom works on most lake pictures but not all of them.

[drhouse]

Thanks for the reply, but in my case the hotkey 'Z' never does anything to any image...

"That's because in some cases HZ+ does not find any bigger version of picture being hovered". Perhaps there's some confusion between what standard hover-zooming and hotkey-Z zooming are supposed to do:

hover-zoom - works fine, that's when you hover over a thumbnail and it displays the 'original source image' over it hotkey-Z zoom - 'When this key is held down, the picture is displayed using all available space. ' this never works, but it should work even if a bigger version of a picture is not found, it should expand the 'hover-zoomed image' into 'using all available space' of the browser window (while limited by image ratio)

my idea of how hotkey-Z is supposed to work is based on my memory of how HoverZoom used to work a long time ago.

[extesy]

@drhouse Do you have "Extend zoomed images below the mouse cursor" option enabled by any chance? The zoom key is basically a temporary on-demand version of that option.

[EpochalEngineer]

I also recall the original HoverZoom to work that way: zoom to all available space, even if there is not a larger source version available.

I would much appreciate a feature to do this, as I often browse on a 4K resolution with much of the source material being small in comparison.

[drhouse]

I also recall the original HoverZoom to work that way: zoom to all available space, even if there is not a larger source version available.

I would much appreciate a feature to do this, as I often browse on a 4K resolution with much of the source material being small in comparison.

for what it's worth, soon after my last post I discovered Imagus, it does everything the way I wanted Hoverzoom to work and how I seem to remember it working, highly recommended: chrome store - Imagus

[EpochalEngineer]

I also recall the original HoverZoom to work that way: zoom to all available space, even if there is not a larger source version available. I would much appreciate a feature to do this, as I often browse on a 4K resolution with much of the source material being small in comparison.

for what it's worth, soon after my last post I discovered Imagus, it does everything the way I wanted Hoverzoom to work and how I seem to remember it working, highly recommended: chrome store - Imagus

I actually switched from Imagus to HoverZoom+ because Imagus has issues with v.reddit.com.

But yes, I definitely prefer the Imagus behavior other than that.

[EhsanKia]

+1 for imagus behavior. fill screen without Z. That being said I'm working on right click locking which imagus has which should partially solve this. But yeah, holding Z loads nothing for me. I tried dozens of photos, it basically acts as the "disable hoverzoom" hotkey. Tried with "Extend zoomed images" on and off.

[Mrfiregem]

Regarding Imagus' right click functionality, this is how I expected Z to work as well. I'm glad to hear there's work being done to add this feature.

[EhsanKia]

I have an initial prototype of the right click behavior if anyone wants to try and give feedback on. Just download zip of latest version from my repo, extract somewhere, then load unpacked into Chrome. Make sure to disable the original extension since you'll have it twice in Chrome. Check options, by default it sets it on L, but you can change it to right click to match imagus behavior. Play around a bit, I tried to get it as close as I could from memory.

@extesy I have an initial PR if you want to take a look and see what your first impression is. https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/pull/746

[pookymaster]

I have an initial prototype of the right click behavior if anyone wants to try and give feedback on. Just download zip of latest version from my repo, extract somewhere, then load unpacked into Chrome. Make sure to disable the original extension since you'll have it twice in Chrome. Check options, by default it sets it on L, but you can change it to right click to match imagus behavior. Play around a bit, I tried to get it as close as I could from memory.

@extesy I have an initial PR if you want to take a look and see what your first impression is. #746

Hi, I've been using this version on Chrome for a few months, and it works great! I migrated to Firefox and I'm really missing this feature. I tried using the zip file to add it through the Firefox "install add-on from file" option, but it says it's corrupt. I'm guessing that's because this was built for Chrome. Is there anyway we can get a Firefox version with this lock feature?

[extesy]

While I'm still working on resolving #782, you can manually install the extension using https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/temporary-installation-in-firefox/ guide.

[mustaqimM]

Has this been resolved? I was looking for Imagus-like zoom functionality, where right clicking locks the image into place and the cursor is able to move around and zoom in and out with scroll. On Firefox, all shortcuts, e.g. Z don't work for me.

EDIT. Changing Lock to Right Click works, but other shortcuts don't seem to work

[rudolphos]

I changed Lock to Right Click and now it works similarly to Imagus, but not as good. Zoom is slow (small zoom percentage per scroll) and panning doesn't work as smooth as on Imagus. Also pan is only possible if image size exceeds screen size. Imagus for comparison

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4366810/210276704-967010f1-e23f-4c97-9c88-3f2b1216ad17.mp4