dadler/thumbnail-zoom — Issue #25: Option to suppress Google Image's own popup
Author: dadler
Created: 2011-12-16 04:32:40+00:00
State: open
Labels: -med-, SUG

This was suggested by "skywalka" aka g...g...@... in an add-on review:

> It can be slightly overwhelming on the Google Image Search page because their thumbnails automatically popup slightly on hover then TZP pops up the popup. It would be great if the middleman could be cut out. But it could be argued that is not within the scope of TZP so I'll give it 5 stars.

My thoughts:

Yes, the double popups are a little annoying on Google Images, and I'll think about an option to suppress them. If you turn off Javascript in Firefox preferences, it'll actually behave like that as-is, actually. If you happen to use Greasemonkey, you might check whether there's an option there to suppress Google Images popups.

I'm concerned that if Thumbnail Zoom Plus suppressed them, users won't anymore see the other info which appears in the Google popup, like web site domain, description, resolution, and View Similar and More Sizes links. And there's risk that it might break something else on Google Images if I try to do that, making users unhappy with Thumbnail Zoom Plus. But I'll think about if there's a safe way to do it. Thanks for the suggestion.

Possible approaches to implementation it: disable the specific event handler Google uses; rewrite the web page to remove whatever triggers the popups; disable javascript entirely on the page. The approach must be compatible with Autopager. Also check whether there's a Greasemonkey script which does this, and could provide inspiration. If this is added to Thumbnail Zoom Plus, it should be via a user preference and by default Google Images should show its own popups like usual.