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Safari extension highlight: Facebook Photo Zoom

With the addition of the Safari Extensions Gallery to Apple's website, TUAW will be highlighting extensions that we think are special, useful, or just plain fun.

Here's one from the "fun" category. As Facebook overtakes the Internet and our collective consciousness, we're spending more and more time there. How else will I be forced to look at photos of people's kids? Speaking of photos, they're small in the timeline and enlarging them means loading a new page. Who has time for that?

Facebook Photo Zoom solves the problem. Once installed, you can enlarge any photo you find in Facebook simply by mousing over it. What's really nice is that you can turn it on and off without having to open Safari's preferences. At the bottom of any Facebook page you'll see a small button (right next to the chat). Just click it to enable or disable the extension.

Now go and enjoy large photos on Facebook while saving yourself precious seconds.


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woody

People *still* use safari? wow

August 21 2010 at 7:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kapitalist

Chrome pens safari. Been using this extension on chrome for months

August 15 2010 at 5:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jwilliek

another option would be to download greasekit and add the ffixer script

August 13 2010 at 9:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Adam

This extension seemed to completely break Facebook for me. WIth it enabled, as I browse around Facebook I will regularly hit a link that just dumps me to a blank page and I have to manually go to facebook.com to get anything to come back up, as going back just keeps the blank page there.

August 13 2010 at 6:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
evan

Hrm. How come I don't have the little button?

August 12 2010 at 11:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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rawrawrawr

I had it for a while when I first installed it about a week ago, but it's since vanished. I want to know what's up.

August 13 2010 at 9:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian

The big blue bear at the CO Convention Center ROCKS!!! And the demonic blue horse at DIA is flat out scary...

August 12 2010 at 11:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
don

I love the title of the sculpture:

"I See What You Mean"

August 12 2010 at 10:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dennis V

This has been a Google Chrome extension for a while now.

August 12 2010 at 9:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Christopher Vendemio

And one I would prefer not to have to live without. As soon as I discovered it for Chrome, it was installed and hasn't been off my system since.

August 12 2010 at 10:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stephen

Facebook=time=wasted

August 12 2010 at 9:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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