# Why do linked pix show up in tapatAlk but not other browsers? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 4, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-linked-pix-show-up-in-tapatalk-but-not-other-browsers/687612 "2014-05-04T01:59:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-linked-pix-show-up-in-tapatalk-but-not-other-browsers/687612/1 "2014-05-04T01:59:28Z")
When a picture is linked in a post and I’m browsing in Tapatalk, the picture displays in the post, but when I’m browsing with Safari, it shows up as a link. I have to click on it to see the picture. Why the difference? Could we get that feature for browsers operating on computers? ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-linked-pix-show-up-in-tapatalk-but-not-other-browsers/687612/2 "2014-05-04T02:50:35Z")
I would assume that’s a feature of the Tapatalk app. Browsers, not being intended for just reading web forums, would just display the page as it’s coded. I’m guessing a userscript could be thrown together to create a similar result in your browser. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-linked-pix-show-up-in-tapatalk-but-not-other-browsers/687612/3 "2014-05-04T03:23:27Z")
Good idea! I just looked for an extension that will do this in Firefox’s extensions site and found one. It seems to work well. The link to it is [**is here**](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-preview/). I found an albums-cover post in Café Society, [**here**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17331295&postcount=2) to test it. I then went into the extension’s preferences to adjust the size to “0”, which displays the link at the original size. Any images on an entire page that’s linked won’t display, though. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-linked-pix-show-up-in-tapatalk-but-not-other-browsers/687612/4 "2014-05-05T00:39:33Z")
Is there a similar add-on for Safari? ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-linked-pix-show-up-in-tapatalk-but-not-other-browsers/687612/5 "2014-05-05T14:18:14Z")
Not that I can find. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-linked-pix-show-up-in-tapatalk-but-not-other-browsers/687612/6 "2014-05-05T15:03:11Z")
Found one for Safari called [**HoverZoom**](http://sidetree.com/extensions.html#HoverZoom). I loaded it and it works on the same Café Society album-cover test in Post #3, above. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-linked-pix-show-up-in-tapatalk-but-not-other-browsers/687612/7 "2014-05-05T16:09:21Z")
Thanks! I’ll try it out once I get back to my Mac. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-linked-pix-show-up-in-tapatalk-but-not-other-browsers/687612/8 "2014-05-08T01:37:55Z")
I actually am annoyed by this feature of Tapatalk because you can’t read the link text. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-linked-pix-show-up-in-tapatalk-but-not-other-browsers/687612/9 "2014-05-08T01:48:03Z")
Yeah it sucks in CS threads when people are using pics or video links as their answer to the OP. If you haven’t figured it out yet Asencray, if you quote/reply to the post in question you can read the text of the link in the code. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-linked-pix-show-up-in-tapatalk-but-not-other-browsers/687612/10 "2014-05-11T13:20:43Z")
And this is the reason I always use direct image links here. I actually sometimes feel a bit guilty for hotlinking, if the images are from a site I normally support via ads. There used to be a Greasemonkey script by a Doper designed to handle all this. It would even play YouTube videos in an overlay.