Filed under: Design, Photo, Browsers
Greased Lightbox puts a nice lightbox interface around images found in Google Image Search (shown above), FFFFOUND, deviantART, Flickr, and a bunch of other sites.
Once the userscript is installed, you only have to click on an image thumbnail. The larger image pops up in a slick lightbox, and you can use the left or right arrow keys for cycling through all images on the page.
When I tested it, it worked well with Google Image Search. However, it didn't work very well with FFFFOUND. I kept getting an "image unavailable" error. It was a bit annoying because the timeout is very long. I ended up waiting and waiting, only to be presented with an error message for an image that I could plainly see.
Fortunately, since it's a userscript, it's quite easy to disable on the sites where it doesn't work well. Just right-click the Greasemonkey status bar icon, select Manage User Scripts, go to Greased Lightbox and add ffffound.com to the Excluded Pages list.
Do you know of a better lightbox userscript? Let me know in the comments and I might post it, along with a credit for you. Fame is just around the corner!
Greased Lightbox is a neat lightbox userscript -- when it works originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 12 May 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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