4 features of Flickr Fixr browser extension

Flickr Fixr - Multifeature browser extension for Flickr users

Stig Nygaard: Flickr Fixr Flickr Fixr is a multi-feature browser extension to make Flickr more "explorative" and bring back some lost Flickr features in desktop browsers... You can install Flickr Fixr in Firefox and Chrome compatible browsers: * Mozilla Firefox Addons * Google Chrome Web Store * Microsoft Edge Addons - For the new Chromium version of Edge Current major features: 1) Album-teaser column on photographer's photostream. In one of the big Flickr-updates some years ago, the column to feature a photographer’s albums or collections disappeared and made Flickr less Gallery-like and less inviting for exploration in people's “backlog”. Yes, there’s a link to albums in top-menu, but I don’t think any casual visitor ever sees or open it. The flexibility in album organization is Flickr's strongest asset in my opinion, and I find it kind of tragicomic that Flickr has decided to hide the albums from casual visitors. But Flickr Fixr puts back a column featuring albums on every photographer's photostream. The 10 first albums as sorted in Flickr Organizer are shown in this column. 2) A photographer’s other photos by tag-links. When hovering the mouse over a photo-tag, Flick Fixr adds an extra direct link to the same photographer's similar tagged photos. Besides saving you a step going through an extra page, Flickr Fixr's tag-hack also works when opening the tag-pages in a new tab/window via right- or ctrl-clicking the tag. Flickr's native way fails when trying to search the same photographer's photos in a new browser tab. 3) Links to album-map and album-comments. On album pages, Flickr Fixr adds two extra links on the "album header". One link pointing to a map with current album's photos, and another link pointing to an old hidden/forgotten/deprecated page with album comments. In an earlier version of Flickr album-comments was an official feature. It ain't official anymore, but the old comments page still exists and is also a good page for reading or editing long album-descriptions (I for example, have some old album-descriptions that are complete travel descriptions. They don’t fit well in current official album-layout). Of course, if you choose to post new album-comments, changes are nobody ever sees them :-/ … 4) Highlight geotagged photo on associated map + Google Maps link. Makes sure geoposition of photo is highlighted when following link to Flickr Map from a geotagged photo. Plus, on the photopage for a geotagged photo, also adds a link to show geoposition of photo directly on Google Maps. 5) "On mouse-over" top-pagers for fast and easy navigation. Are you annoyed by having to scroll to the bottom of photostreams for pagination? Flickr Fixr adds a pagination-bar above the streams for fast and easy navigation. But because the pager-bar sometimes gets pretty wide and might overlap other icons or dropdowns also placed right above the photostream, the top-pager is hidden until you hover your mouse over the center-area right above the photostream. The top-pager is available on photostreams, albums and favorite collections, plus in the new "beta experience" group pools and on the Explore page. 6) Explore Calendar and Recent Uploads On the Explore page, Flickr Fixr adds a link to the hidden/forgotten Explore Calendar and to a page showing some of the latest uploads to Flickr. A little warning regarding the latest uploads though; Even though Safe Search is always activated on that page, you risk seeing stuff you might have preferred not to see. 7) Extra top menu items Adds Tags, Collections and Map items to both the user ("You" dropdown) and the photographer menus (menu bar). 8) Better date & time info on photopages Emphasis of Taken Date instead of Upload Date. Adding Replaced Date when it is detected. And full timestamp on Taken and Upload dates also available via mouseover. 9) Show available newsfeeds When an RSS/Atom newsfeed is detected on a page, an orange feed-icon is added as link to this. The feed-icons are added in upper right corner of pages. Works both on pages on the main flickr.com site and on the blogs on blog.flickr.net and code.flickr.net. 10) Set speed of slideshows Via Flickr Fixr's Options page you can set the number of seconds each image are to be shown when running a slideshow on Flickr. Flickr's (normally fixed) duration is 5 seconds pr. image, but Flickr Fixr allow you to set the duration to any number between 1 and 60 seconds pr. image. Flickr Fixr has an Option page where you can enable or disable features you like or doesn't like. I use the Flickr Fixr in Firefox every day myself. More occasionally I also test it on Chrome. But if something stops working, do give me a hint. You might discover it loong time before I see it myself. Also, maybe for some reason your problem doesn't show in my setup. I watch this thread regularly for comments. I made this multi-feature "thing" very much in frustration over a Flickr design so unilaterally focused on peoples latest uploads only, that it almost makes it feel difficult to explore older photos, and in frustration over Flickr (until recently!) didn't make the 1600px and 2048px wide browsing-sizes available for older photos, making it less interesting to view the "older" photos on larger desktop monitors when you actually stumble upon them. For mobile platforms, I understand the focus on latest uploads (that's also my primary focus when checking Flickr on my phone), but on the desktop-platform I think it is a stupid restriction. In my opinion Flickr's greatest strengths compared to competitors are the long history and back-catalog of photos and users using the site as a gallery to store and showcase all their photos, and the great flexibility in Flicks's albums to organize and present the photos. Flickr should not hide those strengths (like hiding albums on a secondary page only reachable from a discreet item in the top-menu which nobody opens on other photostreams than their own). Flickr should take advantage of their strengths, emphasize them. That would also make Flickr much more fun for the users. And make Flickr stand out from the competition... As a "provider" wanting to showcase my photos nicely to the world, friends and family, this browserextension doesn't do much to get rid of my frustrations. Only Flickr can help that. But as a "consumer" of my own and other peoples photos, Flickr Fixr has made Flickr much more fun and "explorative" to use (again) for me. And maybe someone else can also appreciate the work I have put into Flickr Fixr...