This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

Lolu chungechunge lwabekwa kunqolobane. Uyacelwa ubuze umbuzo omusha uma udinga usizo.

Maintain Windows high dpi setting while showing images at original size?

more options

I have windows 7 set to 200% dpi. That's the way I want it to be with FF, so that the tabs & buttons are scaled too, no just the page contents. Only issue is the images get scaled up too & I prefer to see those in their actual sizes. Any ideas?

I have windows 7 set to 200% dpi. That's the way I want it to be with FF, so that the tabs & buttons are scaled too, no just the page contents. Only issue is the images get scaled up too & I prefer to see those in their actual sizes. Any ideas?

All Replies (4)

more options

This might do it try this add on:

more options

Applying different zoom levels to text and images may distort the page layout. Also, I don't think there's any convenient built-in way to do it.

If you install the following extension, you'll be able to right-click any image and change the image's zoom level to 50% to show the "actual size", but it is an extra step:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/image-zoom/

more options

guigs2 said

This might do it try this add on:

jscher2000 said

Applying different zoom levels to text and images may distort the page layout. Also, I don't think there's any convenient built-in way to do it. If you install the following extension, you'll be able to right-click any image and change the image's zoom level to 50% to show the "actual size", but it is an extra step: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/image-zoom/

Thank you, but neither of these do it.

To clarify to jscher2000, I didn't mean to adjust image size on webpages in general, only when viewing image files directly, i.e., the link ends in png or jpg or whatever image format. I might have gone with your linked extension but there is no option to load images zoomed to a certain level by default, so it's no different from just using Ctrl+scroll down for me.

more options

Hi zetapulse, I think the difference is the Image Zoom extension only applies to the one image and isn't saved as a site-specific preference. Which is better really depends on where the images are hosted.

There probably is a way to restyle the built-in "stand-alone image" viewing page. For example, there was a huge outcry when the page changed from having the image in the upper left corner on a default background to a centered image on a black background, and solutions for that were posted around that time. (Time doesn't permit me to research that at the moment.)