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How to stop Picture search pops up instead of opening to page

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If I do a search (whether google or bing) and then open images and then click on a picture, Firefox opens to the pictures page with the enlarged picture superimposed over the page. I then must x out the picture to get to the page. 

   I do not know why this is happening.  I remember in the past if I clicked an image it opened on the picture in the web page directly.
  Does anyone know what is making this happening and how to remove this?
If I do a search (whether google or bing) and then open images and then click on a picture, Firefox opens to the pictures page with the enlarged picture superimposed over the page. I then must x out the picture to get to the page. I do not know why this is happening. I remember in the past if I clicked an image it opened on the picture in the web page directly. Does anyone know what is making this happening and how to remove this?

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It is Google doing that by adding some scripts to the pages to open a light box that shows the image to avoid having to scroll to the image. I assume that Bing is doing something similar.

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cor-el
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It is Google doing that by adding some scripts to the pages to open a light box that shows the image to avoid having to scroll to the image. I assume that Bing is doing something similar.