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Lo maximo señores, gracias

I love the improvements. You keep making Image Zoom better. Now Firefox is releasing 2 beta 1, which I installed. I hope you have time soon to update Image Zoom to work in the new release.

I would also love if the extension was updated to work with Firefox 2.0 Beta1

Great little extension. Was using it alot! But it won't install to the 1.5.0.5 security update. Sad. Miss it!

Extension works with 1.5.0.5. Please post support questions in the Image Zoom Forums

Hi Jason!

I've just discovered your excellent FFx extension "ImageZoom". I think it will soon become something I recommend as a very useful (if not indespensible) addition to the FFx power-user toolkit.

FWIW, I have two suggestions I hope you'll consider:
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1. Key+Mouse Combinations for ImageZoom Fn's:

A central principle of Apple's HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) is to engineer things so that a SINGLE mouse button CAN provide all functions. I know some Win users scoff at this, but decades of serious usability studies (starting with George Miller's 1956 paper on "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two") have shown that humans have working-memory limits. Even if adding a several buttons to a pointing device may be really handy for an octopu-er, expert user, the vast majority of human beings will use only ONE of the mouse buttons most of the time. Functions buried behind lots of mouse-button chording may never even be discovered by most users, much less actually used. MacOS users (we're not better, we just "think different"), have learned that, with the addition of modifier keys ("fn" "Control" "Option" and "Command") we really aren't missing anything at all by having "only" one mouse button -- as long as the software supports key+mouse combinations.

Please consider (at least allowing!) keyboard modifiers as an option for your Mouse functions in ImageZoom. I.e., instead of Left/Middle/Right being the only choices, allow for combinations using the basic modifier keys and the Left/Right mouse buttons.

In the UI, Apple makes it possible to specify this very elegantly (see various System Prefs, like Expose) by capturing the User's key-press when a Preference dialog's popup menu is pressed. The modifier keystroke and mouse button are thus added (displayed) together. You could also keep it simple and provide a checkbox, i.e.:

"Access zoom with the button PLUS the following modifier key(s).
[ ] Control
[ ] Option/Alt
[ ] Command

This will benefit both your users (on all OS'es) who can avoid incompatibilities and conflicting buttons/keys/etc assignments, and you, because you won't have to add dialogs to remind them of conflicts, or fix bugs that really aren't yours.

FYI, I've got a fancy new Apple mouse (the kind with the "clitoris") that actually does have a left-middle-right capability, but I can't easily use it for ImageZoom's functions because right-clicking brings up the MacOS "contextual menu" ...nor do I need to MOST OF THE TIME.

So, for those times when I can see ImageZoom being incredibly useful I'd be 100% thrilled with your excellent extension if I could e.g. "Control-RightClick" on the image to bring up ONLY the ImageZoom contextual menu (i.e. without all of the other Ffx contextual menu items).

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2. Text & Whole-Page Zoom

Your idea to permit zooming of images is, IMHO, frickin' brilliant... one of those 'why didn't _I_ think of that' ideas.

So, why not do the same thing with the FONTS on any page? By first pointing at objects (not just images) and then using the click-wheel on a fancy mouse or holding down some modifier keys and moving the mouse up and down on the screen, a User could independently and continuously "zoom" virtually anything:
(A) any single block of text in and out, i.e. resizing the font's point-size on-the-fly ("Zoom Text Block"),
(B) all of the Text on any page ("Zoom All Text Blocks"), or
(C) every object on the page: all text and image (Zoom Entire Page), including "Fit Entire Page" and "Reset Entire Page" options. Now, THAT would totally rock, man... think about it!

...In Conclusion:

As it is now, I'm only 94% thrilled and impressed with ImageZoom (hey, that's an "A", right!) ...however, my excitement is being magnified in 1% increments each time I use it ;-) so I'll just reiterate:

Excellent Work!!

Turtle

It does not work in Seamonkey 1.0.5 running on Fedora Core 5 as a normal user :( The options are in the Preferences but the context menu does not have image zoom.

@ Turtle

For (B) You can use [Control]+MouseWheel.
For (C) ther´s an extension named PageZoom.