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Twitter/X - clickable links to images and show uncropped thumbnails

All image posts in Twitter/X Home, other blog streams and single post views link to the high-res "orig" version. Thumbnail images in the stream are modified to display uncropped.

These are versions of this script where the code was updated. Show all versions.

  • v4.3 2024-05-21

    Support x.com domain in addition to twitter.com.

    This seems to be working without requiring an significant changes to the script..
    However, future breakage might occur if Twitter/X moves further away from the old Twitter domains (like the image hosting domain twimg.com).
  • v4.2 2023-09-29

    Attempt to handle Twitter WebP image URLs with Chromium-based browsers, as well.
  • v4.1 2023-09-12
  • v4.0.1 2023-09-12

    typo
  • v4.0 2023-09-12

    Handle "webp" images for which their originally uploaded image was NOT of type "webp".

    Twitter/X seems to be using some A/B Testing (Optimizely, Wikipedia) regarding images.

    Some users receive embedded images coded as webp (smaller size = more efficient) even if the originally uploaded image was of another type (like jpg or png).
    This makes it hard for the script to determine the link to the original image.

    I as author of this script currently seem to be in the "B" group - I do not receive any "webp" images!
    Nonetheless, I've developed a new version if this script (4.0) to try to deal with this "webp" scenario - but full validation testing is obviously difficult...

    I ask for all who are in the "A" group - i.e. all who do receive "webp" images - to please test this script and to provide extensive feedback if things do break...
  • v3.2 2022-11-07

    small refinement to not fail on cross-site CSS style sheets when unblurring posts
  • v3.1 2022-08-27

    fixed removal of image blurring
    (It seems Twitter/React now loads some styles on-demand, invalidating my prior caching approach)
  • v3.0 2022-02-19

    Remove blur effects and "sensitive Content" warnings - this was developed and tested for those posts where this warning appears even if it has been switched off in the Profile Settings.
    Support for Old Twitter UI has been removed.
  • v2.5 2020-09-09 Fix context menu items specific to images not appearing for single-image posts ("View Image", "Save Image As", entries added by add-ons, etc.). Many Thanks to 四葉シグレ for reporting the issue!
  • v2.4 2020-07-30 Some thumbnails were not getting resized correctly anymore - fixed
  • v2.3.2 2020-03-08
  • v2.3.1 2020-01-07 remove commented out code - will not reenable capability of thumbs to resize themselves (too many side-effects)
  • v2.3.0 2019-09-26 Twitter significantly changed the internal logic for 2x and 4x image posts -> disable height resizing -> back to keeping post heights as original and resizing thumbnails to display uncropped within the available height -> i.e. images get smaller as the resize -> as a positive side effect, this removes any "bumpyness" in scrolling back up
  • v2.2.0 2019-08-06 images are resized to their maximum height while respecting aspect ratio and available width
  • v2.1.0 2019-08-06 Apply to single image posts (URL: .../status/...) and apply script more reliably on stream views
  • v2.0.1 2019-07-26 no function change - update to description, only
  • v2.0.0 2019-07-25 Major update to support new Twitter UI
  • v1.1.1 2019-01-06 FIXED: null-pointer exception - bug had no negative effect but was slightly embrassing
  • v1.1.0 2019-01-05 ADDED: uncrop thumbnails - ADDED: apply script to post displayed in overlay - FIXED: various typos in comments and some minor code cleanup
  • v1.0.0 2018-12-30
  • v1.0.0 2018-12-30
  • v1.0.0 2018-12-30