Was a nice tool, but boy I hated seeing it's weird icon on every image files (before images had icon previews)
IrfanView
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Re: IrfanView
#42Why are most comments referring to having used this in the past tense? I was under the impression that it was still the best image viewer in town, on Windows at least
Because of a few things: 1. Windows 11 now ships with quite a decent and powerful image viewer/editor that covers most average users' use cases, therefore lowering the demand from people to go out of their way to find alternatives, like in the Windows XP days, which is a good thing (less likely to go download malware from the first Google result of "image viewer for Windows XP"). 2. PC usage behavior has changed a lo…
The "enshittification" of computing. The Windows 11 default Photo Viewer has probably 20% of the features of IrfanView - and the problem is that normal users don't know a better tool exists for free if they need those extra features. As the resident techie in my house I get asked by people to do simple things like overlay text in a certain style or print a photo with a particular resolution or print multiple photos etc. and these tasks are just harder or impossible with the default tools
Re: IrfanView
#43That’s a name I have not heard in a long while. I used to use it back on Windows 95 because it was a faster way to view JPEGs than opening Internet Explorer. Everything about that makes me feel old.
I opened the link first and I kept a few seconds trying to remember what we had to use to open JPEGs and GIFs back then. Then I read your comment. Right, IE for images. What a fun world we lived on!
Re: IrfanView
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
It made more sense to go through the effort to install IrfanView when there was no image previewer built into windows, in the days of Windows 95/98/ME/2000. Those only had MS Paint, and I think some versions only supported bmp files (no jpeg or gif). Windows XP had an ok image previewer.
> no image previewer built into windows, in the days of Windows 95/98/ME/2000 Windows has shipped with an image previewer since Windows ME. You can see it in this screenshot: https://www.reddit.com/r/windows98/comments/y1lj7x/winme_ima...
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Re: IrfanView
#45FastStone gang forever
Re: IrfanView
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Alternative?
The built-in viewer in windows is fine. I can't really think of a feature that it doesn't have that I need. Could you say why irfanview gets your vote?
It's also a paint tool (edit->show paint dialog), and does tricks like swapping channels or repeating the image as a grid of tiles, which are handy when programming something involving raster graphics or textures.
Re: IrfanView
#47Why are most comments referring to having used this in the past tense? I was under the impression that it was still the best image viewer in town, on Windows at least
Because of a few things: 1. Windows 11 now ships with quite a decent and powerful image viewer/editor that covers most average users' use cases, therefore lowering the demand from people to go out of their way to find alternatives, like in the Windows XP days, which is a good thing (less likely to go download malware from the first Google result of "image viewer for Windows XP"). 2. PC usage behavior has changed a lo…
Does the Windows 11 photo viewer still have that gross flickering when changing images and absurdly slow startup that the Windows 10 photo viewer added when they replaced the old Vista/7 viewer, which had none of these issues?
Re: IrfanView
#48That’s a name I have not heard in a long while. I used to use it back on Windows 95 because it was a faster way to view JPEGs than opening Internet Explorer. Everything about that makes me feel old.
>I used to use it back on Windows 95 because it was a faster way to view JPEGs than opening Internet Explorer.
That's an amazing sentence. We should frame it and put it in a museum. Actually someone should make a book filled just with quotes like this, call it "Life Before the Gigahertz" or something.
Re: IrfanView
#494MB to download the installer, back in the days when programs just did the thing they did and didn't include runtimes for entire virtual environments.
An average PC also had 64-256MB of RAM instead of 8-32GB.
I told my friend once:
- "I have 8MB of RAM"
- "That's cool, imagine having 16..."
Re: IrfanView
#50Why are most comments referring to having used this in the past tense? I was under the impression that it was still the best image viewer in town, on Windows at least
Most people look at images via browser these days.
Who cares what 'most people do'? Why are we constantly resorting to this tired refrain of "majority rules"? Have you all forgotten that niche things exist?