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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by SpockFan02 » 2018-05-22, 23:15

The script (and add-on) is (are) supposed to re-add the button that lets you see the image on its own, not in the page, without having to inspect element or anything.

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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Brian » 2018-05-22, 23:34

^ And without having to load the (likely bloated) website every time just to see the larger version of the image.

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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by coffeebreak » 2018-05-23, 11:50

I use this script from trlkly, works fine.
(it's a fork of the userscript version of "make-gis-great-again".)

And I just now tried the script suggested by nicolaasjan, it also worked fine.

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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Brian » 2018-05-23, 23:24

I'm not sure I want to install Greasemonkey just to run this script. Seems like when I installed it in the past, it slowed things down.? Seems like someone would just put the updated script in an addon.
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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Isengrim » 2018-05-24, 02:14

I just updated my PR for the XUL version of this add-on. Hopefully bijij will accept it and provide an official XUL release.
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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Brian » 2018-05-24, 18:35

Isengrim wrote:I just updated my PR for the XUL version of this add-on. Hopefully bijij will accept it and provide an official XUL release.
Thank you.

Will you post here if it's available? I'm not a coder and some of the github content is kind of confusing to me. I only know to check the releases page for the newest version.
Example of that, V2 (Webext) is on ABO, but on https://github.com/bijij/ViewImage , when I click on releases, the newest is 1.7.2 from Feb. Why?
So if there's a new XUL version I don't even know if it'll show up there.

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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Goodydino » 2018-05-24, 20:27

I tried an image search with Startpage, and got a lot more images. I searched for Apollo, just to test.

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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Isengrim » 2018-05-25, 02:30

Brian wrote:when I click on releases, the newest is 1.7.2 from Feb. Why?
So if there's a new XUL version I don't even know if it'll show up there.
I'm not sure why the 2.0 Chrome extension isn't up on GitHub yet. I can only assume that if the maintainer does accept the updates the XUL extension, it will be there, but it's really up to them.
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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Brian » 2018-06-04, 19:25

Isengrim wrote:
Brian wrote:when I click on releases, the newest is 1.7.2 from Feb. Why?
So if there's a new XUL version I don't even know if it'll show up there.
I'm not sure why the 2.0 Chrome extension isn't up on GitHub yet. I can only assume that if the maintainer does accept the updates the XUL extension, it will be there, but it's really up to them.
So do you have a working version? Can we just get it from you?

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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by krayon » 2018-06-05, 14:30

Brian wrote:So do you have a working version? Can we just get it from you?
I've tested Ascrod's xul branch and it appears to work.

This is probably NOT recommended unless you know what you're doing but the
following SHOULD work (did for me on Linux):

Go to:
https://github.com/Ascrod/ViewImage/tree/xul

Select "Clone or download" on the right (green button).

Select "Download ZIP" from the dropdown.

Once you've done that, rename the zip:
viewimage@bijij.me.xpi

Place the zip (now xpi) in your PM profile's "extensions" directory.

Finally, restart the profile.

In the event your OS and file system don't show you file extensions ("zip"
etc), search the Internet first for how to rectify that before doing the above.

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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Isengrim » 2018-06-05, 17:43

I am Ascrod. :P

And yeah, that'll work. But as I think I've said before, I'd rather let the original author maintain the releases, assuming they are willing to do so, since it isn't difficult to do.
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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Tomaso » 2018-06-05, 19:36

Isengrim wrote:that'll work.
No.
Pale Moon detects is as being corrupt.
At least under Windows.

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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Isengrim » 2018-06-05, 20:33

Tomaso wrote:
Isengrim wrote:that'll work.
No.
Pale Moon detects is as being corrupt.
At least under Windows.
Unzip, move everything out of the root folder, then rezip. Also make sure you download the xul branch and not the chrome branch.
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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Tomaso » 2018-06-05, 20:48

Isengrim wrote:Unzip, move everything out of the root folder, then rezip.
Yes, there was a root folder that caused the problem. :)

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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Tomaso » 2018-06-05, 21:17

Those of you that still use Google for image searching should also check out this extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addo ... d.1-signed
It adds Google's reverse image search to the right-click menu.
This comes very handy combined with View Image.
Although, I try to limit my Google usage as much as possible.

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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Brian » 2018-06-05, 21:19

Isengrim wrote: move everything out of the root folder
Can you explain exactly what you mean? I've tried a couple different things of what I think you mean, but it's still not working.
I did open the zip, and copy everything out of the ViewImage-xul folder and rezipped those folders/files that were in ViewImage-xul as an xpi.

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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Tomaso » 2018-06-05, 21:27

Make sure that you use ZIP legacy compression.
That's the only one that will work.

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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Brian » 2018-06-05, 21:56

Tomaso wrote:Make sure that you use ZIP legacy compression.
That's the only one that will work.
Got it. Thanks.

Another reason for needing this extension is sometimes if you click on the image and are taken to the website, but the picture isn't there because it's buried on older pages, as I was trying to do the other day but couldn't find the image anywhere.

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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by tor000 » 2018-06-07, 18:48

Downloaded the last XPI version 1.2 of ViewImage, don't works at all. In Firefox, the last webextension version works well.

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Re: ViewImage for Google Image Search script

Unread post by Tomaso » 2018-06-07, 19:08

tor000 wrote:Downloaded the last XPI version 1.2 of ViewImage, don't works at all.
The previous posts explains how to get Isengrim's v1.3, which works just fine.

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