Google Lightboxer, A Safari 5 Extension

Posted by on June 13, 2010 Leave a comment (22) Go to comments

7/20/2010 Update – Google has released a significant images update that breaks lightboxer. I’ll look into this and fix it within the next week or so.


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Google Lightboxer1 is a Safari 5 extension that creates a Lightbox2 slideshow on Google Images. Click any image and a slideshow will appear loading the full resolution images. If you don’t want to have the lightbox appear, hold command and it will be disabled temporarily.

To install:

Latest Release – v1.3

  • Pulls the Google Images metadata into the colorbox so you can see it while you’re browsing more easily.

Known issues:

  • Some JS errors in console. Will be resolved in future release, but they are cosmetic only.

You can view the source on GitHub as well! If you have suggestions for improvements let me know! Bug reports should be directed to the issues page.

  1. Icon courtesy of Brian Kim. ↩
  2. Actually it’s done using Colorbox ↩
  3. If you haven’t enabled extensions in Safari then learn how. ↩
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22 Comments.

  2. Paul Kehrer June 13, 2010 at 2:42 pm

    I was not aware of this extension, but thanks for the link. I’ll drop it in the post to show there is another choice.

  3. maskov1 June 13, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    And what about international google.(not)com users?

  4. Newton June 13, 2010 at 4:11 pm

    Yes, please update for international TLDs too!

  5. eyekey June 13, 2010 at 5:06 pm

    Thanks for the extension. Works perfectly, but please update for international users. In my case its google.de.
    Thanx!

  6. Erste Extensions für Safari 5 | apfelquak - pingback on June 13, 2010 at 6:02 pm
  7. Paul Kehrer June 13, 2010 at 6:42 pm

    Done! 1.1 supports this (in addition to numerous other improvements)

  8. mati June 14, 2010 at 2:13 am

    I prefer GoMBoX by Constantin Müller:
    http://gombox.rnm.me/GoMBoX.html

  10. Aaron Trout June 14, 2010 at 10:35 am

    Hi,

    Not sure if I am doing something wrong (I don’t think I am :S) but this does not seem to work for me. I have enabled extensions and downloaded/installed the extension, but google images functions as per usual. I have tried quitting safari as well but it still does not work…

    Any ideas?

  11. Aaron Trout June 14, 2010 at 10:39 am

    Actually, scrap that it is working now. Maybe caching the google images page or something?

    Looks great, thanks!

  12. Aayush Arya June 14, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    It is not working for me. Am I supposed to do something on the search results page to get it to work? Like, press a link or something?

    This extension is supposed to show a slideshow of the results of an Google Image search, right? It’s not doing so.

    (Yes, I am running Safari 5 and yes, this extension is installed and enabled.)

  13. Aayush Arya June 14, 2010 at 12:17 pm

    Did I actually type “press a link” up there? I must have a case of the Mondays. I meant “click on a link”.

  14. Paul Kehrer June 14, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    Aayush,

    If your URL is images.google.com it won’t work right now. I didn’t realize people were still using the legacy URLs (www.google.com/images is the current system) so I will release an update soon to fix that.

    To have it lightbox you just click an image result.

  15. Sam June 14, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    Hi,

    download seems to be linking to a dead page?

    Thanks

  16. Paul Kehrer June 14, 2010 at 4:28 pm

    Thanks for the heads up, I fixed the dead link!

  17. links for 2010-06-15 » HTML5 - - pingback on June 15, 2010 at 2:02 pm
  18. Google Lightboxer - Der Safari Extension Blog - pingback on June 16, 2010 at 12:56 am
  19. Hello-Mac » Blog Archive » Google Lightboxer 1.3 - pingback on July 9, 2010 at 1:00 am
  20. Google Lightboxer 1.3 | Hello-Mac.com - pingback on July 23, 2010 at 12:32 am
  21. Cargath August 24, 2010 at 8:35 am

    Would be great if it would work with the new Google Images search layout. I definitely prefer this over GoMBoX, which has this annoying “donate”-buttons…

  22. Pablo September 7, 2010 at 5:24 am

    Thanks for this great extension its very useful!

    Some comments and suggestions:

    - Clicking on the image takes you to next image, but this seems redundant if you have the prev, next arrows visibile. I think the most expected result when clicking on the image would be loading the full image outside of lightbox. Or at least make an available option for the user to choose
    - There should be a way to go straight to the website the images come from right from lightbox view. My suggestion for this would be instead of just putting the green domain name at the top and the filename at the right, put the whole URL, split it into parts breadcrumb style and make all of them clickable:
    http://www.domain.com > path/to/page/source.html

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