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youtube thumbnails - open image in new tab

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dee_veloper
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On the landing page for youtube, I used to be able to right mouse click on a video thumbnail and select "open image in a new tab" from the context menu and see the thumbnail in a new tab window.

After recent updates, (now using 111.0.1 64bit , on windows 10 pro), this feature no longer exists. It's not a change on youtube because the thumbnail is still recognized as an image and can be opened in a new tab when I use Edge browser. It seems like Firefox no longer recognizes the thumbnail as an image.

Is there any setting I can change to get the feature of "open image in new tab" back into the context menu. or somehow get Firefox to recognize the thumbnail as an image ?

On the landing page for youtube, I used to be able to right mouse click on a video thumbnail and select "open image in a new tab" from the context menu and see the thumbnail in a new tab window. After recent updates, (now using 111.0.1 64bit , on windows 10 pro), this feature no longer exists. It's not a change on youtube because the thumbnail is still recognized as an image and can be opened in a new tab when I use Edge browser. It seems like Firefox no longer recognizes the thumbnail as an image. Is there any setting I can change to get the feature of "open image in new tab" back into the context menu. or somehow get Firefox to recognize the thumbnail as an image ?

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dee_veloper
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Well, some positive update news. I'm now using version 113.0.2 (64-bit). I find that if I right-mouse click on the thumbnail multiple times, an extended menu will appear and "open image in new tab" will appear on the list of options. If I only right-click once, the limited menu will appear without the image options.

King Ray
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I'm having this problem too ... last couple of updates. Keeps coming and going, so they're breaking this functionality constantly. I'm using Windows 7, 64-bit. Thumbnails show with Chrome. What's going on Mozilla? I'm on version 114.0 (64-bit). It doesn't matter what site I'm trying to paste links into. Wish there was a setting that could be turned on and off so we can do something about this ourselves.

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