Restores Google Images to how it appeared before August 6, 2019
IMPORTANT MESSAGE
This extension may break at any time, as Google Images randomly changes their back end occasionally causing the extension to stop working.
Feel free to leave a comment in the reviews if the extension stops working. In the event that the extension does stop working, please use the following link to check for updates:
https://git.sr.ht/~fanfare/googleimagesrestored
Latest reviews
- (2024-04-09) ultra coolboy: EDIT 3/5/2022 (again) did some messing around and now it's working, make sure you go into the extension settings and toggle acess on and off for it to work Edit: 3/13/2024 stopped working today xd Edit3/20/2024 ok so I know the creator was not dealing with any issues and I want to report this extension dose work in incognito mode, did some messing around with the extension in the settings trying to manually update it and now images don't even open up on the side the black background just opens up on the side, gonna try reinstalling it. Edit-2 3/20/2024 so I tested it out in on another profile and it actually worked so I'm not sure if any other extentions are getting in the way of this one, I even cleared my cookies and still no luck Edit 4/9/2024- it's working again now, sorry google is being such a pain with ruining the extension like this with their site changes.
- (2024-04-05) Pietro Pezzotti: 05/04/24 It finally works again!
- (2024-04-05) Emanuel Jhutti: Thank god
- (2024-03-22) n ascentt: This is incredibly well made. It looks completely native and not at all hacked on top of what's really underneath. I'm in awe at how well this turned out. Have installed it on Chrome and Firefox and am recommending it to others. Great job. Edit: 5 years later it still works great in chrome and firefox for me. Although it doesn't work in edge (which supports chrome addons). Would be happy to help provide info to the developer but it looks like their github is read only.
- (2024-02-18) Cole Patterson: It's 2023, and this extension still works. Edit: Google is so stupid. They don't know, nor do they care, what their users want.
- (2023-12-06) Max Payne: Works great now after the update! and the related images working too. Thank you.
- (2023-11-12) Breaking Bad: Works but related images don't show
- (2023-11-11) Belay Mulat: Nice!! edit: pls fix reverse image search which is not working properly when this extension is turned on.
- (2023-11-03) Rick: This extension no longer works when signed in to google (gmail). It only works when signed-out. Tested in Chrome-109 and FF-99. Edit update workaround: after search results, click on “shopping” first and then on “images”, problem solved.
- (2023-10-26) Wind: appears to work. the only one that works most consistently.
- (2023-10-14) Old Ashe: This extension works perfectly FINE!!!!!!
- (2023-10-10) afriendofepicproportions: Works great! Until now. Google changed something in Chrome and now the images are to the right again. I hope an update comes where the images drop down in the middle again.
- (2023-09-27) K Law: Worked beautifully as of yesterday (September 26, 2023). Today, not so much. Every image clicked gets shoved to the right side of the screen. Hopefully the dev can fix what Google insists on constantly breaking.
- (2023-09-17) Patryk: like
- (2023-09-12) Aaron Yeshe: THANK YOU! works flawlessly The new google images design and functionality was one of the reasons I lost all my hope and will to live. This extension made a huge impact on my quality of life.
- (2023-08-18) Ярослав Новокрещиннов: Обожаю это приложение. Вернуло как раньше возможность открывать картинке в большом размером и листать кнопками вперед и назад. Спасибо вам огромное.
- (2023-07-19) Cyberpunk88: Can't middle-mouse click any of the images..
- (2023-07-11) Wrex: 👌
- (2023-06-13) Oleg Surname: A W E S O M E
- (2023-05-13) Skill seizer: WORKING perfectly super happy and plz a request, do keep it alive, like other alternative extensions are DEAD
- (2023-04-28) Lena Skye (CatgalSkye): does not work for opera gx, the side bar stays instead of bringing up the old layout
- (2023-04-16) Rill: Это работает, а другое (не это) не работало.
- (2023-03-27) Arthur Costa (Astronauta Gamer): AMAZING EXTENSION! keep going!
- (2023-02-28) FRG Tech: Works as intended. Thank you!
- (2023-01-30) Soggiest Napkin: Worked as intended. No lag noticed.
- (2022-12-06) John Snow: Explicit images searches are now blurred. you can see them if you click the image but all the thumbnails are blurred? it's definitely this extension that's causing the issue.
- (2022-12-05) Julian E. Frete Iommi: perfecto
- (2022-12-04) Dutch Sakuraba: Still love it but can't access the "related images" part anymore.
- (2022-11-24) Elvillio: By far the best extension of all these "View Image" extensions. It works flawlessly all these years with zero problems and honestly I love it. I really can't understand how on earth has only 30.000+ installs! (at the time)
- (2022-10-03) Angel Archania: Was having issues with it working, until I went into the settings and forced it to "allow access to search pages". Not sure why that's off by default with an add-on like this, but turning it on solved all my problems. Thanks for this amazing add-on!
- (2022-08-10) Ubaldo Devaro: was great when it worked but as of 10-AUG-2022 it no longer works on any of my Chrome desktop browsers.
- (2022-08-09) Vlad Podd: I can't believe Google still hasn't doubled back on their decision. The new "sidebar" UI is objectively worse.
- (2022-08-07) Юрий: Great extension!
- (2022-07-28) nkd: Amazing! Thank you!
- (2022-07-03) evangelino jordan: good extension, thank you
- (2022-06-26) FallenLegEND: exactly what i was searching for thanks!
- (2022-06-07) Callum: Works perfectly. 08/06/22
- (2022-06-03) Einhanderk Eckhardt: Muito obrigado! Funcionou perfeitamente como antes. Só agradece!
- (2022-05-29) Quasarist Magnetar!: It exactly does what says: Restoring Old Google Images Layout with "View Image" button! not that images be showed in the right side of the window/tab, but under the clicked Image(Old fashion google images if you remember it ;) the only problem is the clicked image that are shown in the window, are a little small compared to the new google images layout and you really need to use view image button to see a large size of every image! generally very nice and I like it👍
- (2022-05-18) Ashton Davies - The World Of Wonders!: Love it! If possible, can you update its manifest version to v3?
- (2022-03-17) Harly Walsh: Oh dear lord thank you.
- (2022-02-07) Pavel Strnad: Super. Thx.
- (2022-02-02) Kyle S: Love it, but seems to have an issue with not working in related images. If you open up any image and click the view more option on the related images, this extension doesn't work for the related images search page.
- (2022-01-19) vicky anand: brilliant. thanks to the dev.
- (2021-12-20) John Noble: It doesn't appear to make anything change and there are no instructions or settings to take a look at.
- (2021-12-08) C F: great extension I've used it for the last couple of years only issue right now is some images resolutions are not rendering completely and end up looking lower quality than they are, however when disabling the extension and using the current native image interface the problem goes away I've checked this against the exact same image. I'm not sure if you can fix this but I thought id let you know. Still a usable extension though thanks.
- (2021-11-11) Deadpoolryconn: Good extension but it only seems to work properly on the first half of the Google image page. After that when you click to view an image it opens to a version that is smaller to the one you are trying to view. It can be very inconvenient but otherwise it works fine.
- (2021-11-07) Darth Bombad: Works great! I'm so glad to be rid of Google's horrid "new" layout. I honestly can't image search without it. There is however one small problem with their last update. The Little refining categories at the top of the page. https://i.imgur.com/HCr783p.gif Are gone whenever this extension is enabled. https://i.imgur.com/OPCnijw.jpg They're actually quite useful. And i'd love for them to make a return.
- (2021-11-03) Andrey Antykov: Still the most useful extension! Thank you!
- (2021-09-17) 계아: 정말 좋은 확장프로그램입니다. 한국어가 없다는 것빼고는 다른 건 다 장점입니다.
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40,000
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Rating
4.5597 (536 votes)
Last update / version
2024-06-09 / 0.9.0
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en