For example, if I'm in a Google Image Search or browsing someone's Flickr Photostream, I don't want the zoom to keep trying to pop up every I pause while scrolling the page-I want to look over the thumbnails first to choose an image to zoom. The value of a temporary zoom cancel is that sometimes I don't want the images to be continually zooming when the mouse is hovering over them. Specifically, I'd like to see it adopt two of the Hotkey features the Chrome extension provides: a hotkey to temporarily disable the zoom, and a hotkey to save the full-size image to your downloads folder. The one thing that would make it better would be if it borrowed a few features from the Chrome extension of the same name (which is a completely unrelated project).
What it does is so simple that there just isn't much to say about it in that regard except that it just works. Even without it, though, HoverZoom is still pretty much perfect, and I will continue to sing its praises and recommend it everywhere. But I'd be willing to pay for that additional feature. I don't know how difficult that would be to add. What I'm asking about would let me set HZ to reverse it for, say,, so that on that domain, the zoom would be hidden unless I pressed Command, but on other domains it would still zoom unless I pressed Command. Would it be difficult to add the ability to have whatever default one has chosen be reversed on a particular site?įor instance, suppose I have it set to always zoom on hover, and hide the zoom when I press Command. Currently, you can set HZ to zoom only while a hotkey is pressed OR zoom unless a hotkey is pressed. Now that HoverZoom is perfect -), let me put a bug in your ear for something that might make it even more perfect.
I can't say it often enough: developers who are responsive to their users' needs are awesome.
Thanks for adding the zoom-hiding hotkey! With that, plus the tip you gave me in April about the maximize hotkey, HoverZoom now does everything I need it to do! Accordingly, I have bumped my review up to a full 5 stars.