Google Images AutoPager and enlarger

By Fabrizio Last update May 14, 2010 — Installed 25,021 times.


Script Summary: ***NEW Fix, it works with new google interface (as of 2010-05)*** Autoloads for next page of Google Images search results + adds links to the original image & original page + enlarge images on mouseover.

Version: 1.4

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Strongly based on http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8433, now not working anymore
Originally I only changed the feature that makes this script start on double click: I didn't like that, so I changed it to start whenever the mouse is over the webpage (i.e. as soon as you try to scroll the page down, the latest!).
I also modified the pages it applies to: this applies to any google page in any language, if the google url contains the word "images".

As the original script, this will load more images as soon as you scroll down the page (feels like you are scrolling a never ending page!).
It also redirect the image's links straight to the image source.

UPDATED TO VERSION 1.1: you don't need anymore to have your mouse over the page to have the script started, it starts automatically when the page is loaded.

Updated to version 1.2: removed the bogus request for script update to 0.4

Updated to version 1.3: working again, but I do know it has some minor bugs (particularly it won't work well with mozdev's search-bar engine for google images... but whether you believe it or not... that's their fault, because their script makes a non-standard request using a double entry "start="in the url)!! If anyone feels like doing some clean up, you are welcome... please notify me here :)... Apart from that I think I fixed many bugs,

Updated to version 1.4: working again, after google interface redesign.
Changelog: 1)Cleaned the code,
2) added a manual script updater via greasemonkey's context menu (credit:Jarett - Google Account Multi-Login )
3) added context menu entry to disable the enlarger (it will still be enabled for the first page regardless of the setting, but autopaged images will not enlarge on mouseover)
4) added a variable px_to_load_new_page : change the value of this variable to preload more or less pages when you scroll down

NOTE: I decided not to implement the request to open links (origin image/origin page) in a new tab as I think the default firefox behaviour is rather convenient (middle-clicking to open in new tab)... please feel free to leave feedbacks if you think this was a wrong decision!

TODO:
1) fix the side menu, which at the moment works only on refresh (e.g.: click "medium size", and then refresh the page).
2) Option to make pictures load on demand (on mouseover) to save bandwidth - at the moment it is only possible to enable or disable the enlarger to save bandwidth

License: Creative Common (by-nc-sa)
Please notify me if you notice any strange/unwanted behaviour and I will try to fix it!

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