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HoverSee
HoverSee
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HoverSee

Version 4.2.2

Mouse-over to images to enlarge them.

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HoverSee overview

HoverSee Safari Extension (was HoverZoom) lets you hover your mouse over images or links to enlarge photos or to preview videos and websites. A brief description is displayed with the preview when available

Types of Enhanced Content:
  • Thumbnail images (Facebook, Google, news sites, etc.)
  • Links to image galleries (Flickr, Imgur, etc.)
  • Links to videos (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.)
  • Direct links to images
  • Links to any website (If enabled by the user)

What’s new in version 4.2.2

Updated on Nov 14 2020

Version 4.2.2:
  • Adds support for Apple Silicon
  • New setting: Delay for Automatic Zoom

Information

License

Commercial

Size

4.5 MB

Downloads

71108

App requirements

  • Intel 64
  • macOS 10.13 or later
  • Apple Safari 5 or later
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avrumeleh
avrumeleh
Dec 14 2019
4.1.4
5.0
Dec 14 2019
5.0
Version: 4.1.4
This is undoubtedly a really useful and effective extension. I use it all the time...particularly when I search in ebay for vintage wrist watches which I collect. For that alone HoverSee makes life far far easier, faster and enjoyable. And that's only one of it tons of uses! My only question about this great "gadget" is while it will enlarge a photo in Pinterest, it is obscured by some proprietary Pinterest over photo that obscures the photo and is of no use at all. Is there a way to bypass that and use HoverSee in Pinterest?
Robio
Robio
Mar 28 2017
2.1
5.0
Mar 28 2017
5.0
Version: 2.1
I can't live without this plug-in. Saves me soon many clicks.
hwgray
hwgray
Feb 28 2016
2.0
5.0
Feb 28 2016
5.0
Version: 2.0
What everyone else below has said. If you zooming in is useful to for whatever reason, get this! And the price unbeatable. That someone would author a tool so useful and not even charge the token $0.99 is, well, a nice thing to do!
Aargl
Aargl
Nov 10 2014
1.8
4.5
Nov 10 2014
4.5
Version: 1.8
Great extension, constantly updated. There's only one more feature I miss, it's a "true maximize" setting, I mean the ability to scale the zoomed image to the size of the screen, not necessary full screen, but for small images to expand to the height of the screen, not only to the maximum size of the picture. Until recently, I was able to do something similar with Centerimages, a great extension too, which is not as regularly updated as HoverZoom is, unfortunately, and is currently not working anymore in 10.9.5. Thanks. :-)
Quantumpanda
Quantumpanda
May 18 2014
1.7
5.0
May 18 2014
5.0
Version: 1.7
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. I can't say it often enough: developers who are responsive to their users' needs are awesome. Now that HoverZoom is perfect ;-) , let me put a bug in your ear for something that might make it even more perfect. Currently, you can set HZ to zoom only while a hotkey is pressed OR zoom unless a hotkey is pressed. Would it be difficult to add the ability to have whatever default one has chosen be reversed on a particular site? For instance, suppose I have it set to always zoom on hover, and hide the zoom when I press Command. What I'm asking about would let me set HZ to reverse it for, say, google.com, 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. I don't know how difficult that would be to add. But I'd be willing to pay for that additional feature. Even without it, though, HoverZoom is still pretty much perfect, and I will continue to sing its praises and recommend it everywhere.
Quantumpanda
Quantumpanda
Feb 20 2014
1.6
5.0
Feb 20 2014
5.0
Version: 1.6
I must admit, I love this extension. Being free makes it doubly awesome. What it does is so simple that there just isn't much to say about it in that regard except that it just works. 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). 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 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. 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. Two types of hotkeys would help here: a toggle hotkey to turn on or off all zooming, and a disable-while-pressed hotkey to prevent zooming while it's pressed. As for a save hotkey, that would allow one to bypass the need to load the next page to save a copy of an image locally. If I'm browsing, say, Deviant Art, with the current Safari extension, I can zoom the thumbs to get a good look at the image, but if I want to save it locally, I have to click through to the image's page to get the full-size image—saving by context menu will just capture the thumbnail. In the Chrome extension, I can press the save hotkey while hovering and it will save the full-size image locally without having to click through. I am well aware that the two extensions have no connection or relation to each other except the name, but as the Chrome extension is open sourced with free permission to adapt and distribute, it would be really nice to see some of its features brought into the Safari extension. I had considered making a conversion myself, but I'm not yet strong enough in Javascript and extension-building to figure out what needs changed between Chrome and Safari to make it work.
anonymous-skink-4656
anonymous-skink-4656
Feb 17 2014
1.6
5.0
Feb 17 2014
5.0
Version: 1.6
A lot of new features, but still does not work on most pages in the domain imdb.com - only on the first main page is ok, but deeper is not working.
Reddog99
Reddog99
Nov 8 2013
1.5
0.0
Nov 8 2013
0.0
Version: 1.5
Seems to stopped working in 10.9... I'm going to miss this.
pedrotaquelim
pedrotaquelim
May 12 2013
1.5
5.0
May 12 2013
5.0
Version: 1.5
It changes the way you surf the web (in a more convenient way). I think that's the best compliment to this useful extension.
Jazzyguy
Jazzyguy
Dec 23 2012
1.4
5.0
Dec 23 2012
5.0
Version: 1.4
It works fine!
Fotodivr
Fotodivr
Oct 15 2012
1.3.3
0.0
Oct 15 2012
0.0
Version: 1.3.3
version on the developer's website is for 1.3.2 - don't see a location to download version 1.3.3 Nice extension - works as advertised.
silverhand31
silverhand31
Jun 9 2012
1.3
5.0
Jun 9 2012
5.0
Version: 1.3
I didn't realize how important it is to me, after the fb update, I feel frustrated when viewing images. But now I updated to the 1.3 but only view avatar zoomed, not all the photo like usual. I noticed that the url for the image that not zoomable is https, is that a problem? Sample link: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=475891345759686&set=a.253655607983262.80685.253646384650851&type=1&ref=nf I recently install glims and social fixer, but I disabled the preview function in social fixer
Multimedia-Pimp
Multimedia-Pimp
May 5 2012
1.2.11
5.0
May 5 2012
5.0
Version: 1.2.11
My favourite extension by far. A must have for anyone who surfs the more popular picture sites. Keep up the great work!
Robio
Robio
May 5 2012
1.2.11
5.0
May 5 2012
5.0
Version: 1.2.11
My favorite Safari extension. Saves a lot of time and hassle. My only beefs are that sometimes large images are slower to load in HoverZoom than if you click to open them in a new tab (this happens a lot on IMDb, for example), and that once in a while it stops working on a given site (usually fixed by a refresh).
Aargl
Aargl
Apr 8 2012
1.2.10
4.5
Apr 8 2012
4.5
Version: 1.2.10
Excellent communication with the dev who cares about our suggestions! Just for that it deserves a 5 star rating! ;-) And it's a really useful extension, also to copy/paste images that a site prohibits by some Flash trick... ;-D Thanks!
sjk
sjk
Mar 24 2012
1.2.9
0.0
Mar 24 2012
0.0
Version: 1.2.9
Recently I'd been noticing HoverZoom was deactivating for no apparent reason. Turns out using a window's scrollbar is one cause, until HZ is reactivated by interaction within the window again (e.g. a click/tap in it). I was able to reproduce it with all other extensions disabled. This issue might have started with Safari 5.1.4.
Lanouvellechair
Lanouvellechair
Aug 30 2010
1.1.5
5.0
Aug 30 2010
5.0
Version: 1.1.5
Thank you for this extension ! "facebook photo zoom" is great but limited. This extension works with amazon and everything else.
avrumeleh
avrumeleh
Dec 14 2019
5.0
Dec 14 2019
5.0
Version: null
Robio
Robio
Mar 28 2017
5.0
Mar 28 2017
5.0
Version: null
hwgray
hwgray
Feb 28 2016
5.0
Feb 28 2016
5.0
Version: null
Aargl
Aargl
Nov 10 2014
4.5
Nov 10 2014
4.5
Version: null
Quantumpanda
Quantumpanda
May 18 2014
5.0
May 18 2014
5.0
Version: null
anonymous-skink-4656
May 5 2014
5.0
Version: null
Pedro-Fardilha
Pedro-Fardilha
Feb 16 2014
5.0
Feb 16 2014
5.0
Version: null
pedrotaquelim
pedrotaquelim
May 12 2013
5.0
May 12 2013
5.0
Version: null
Jazzyguy
Jazzyguy
Dec 23 2012
5.0
Dec 23 2012
5.0
Version: null
silverhand31
silverhand31
Jun 9 2012
5.0
Jun 9 2012
5.0
Version: null
Multimedia-Pimp
Multimedia-Pimp
May 5 2012
5.0
May 5 2012
5.0
Version: null
Gitte79
Gitte79
May 5 2012
5.0
May 5 2012
5.0
Version: null
Davidson69
Davidson69
Jan 1 2012
5.0
Jan 1 2012
5.0
Version: null
Lanouvellechair
Lanouvellechair
Aug 30 2010
5.0
Aug 30 2010
5.0
Version: null
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