Around 2000-2007 I used something similar to this one (Windows XP/7 times), I can't recall the name right now. Someone remember other popular image viewers at the time?
Maybe ACDSee?
IrfanView
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Re: IrfanView
#626MB feels so refreshing.
Re: IrfanView
#63Around 2000-2007 I used something similar to this one (Windows XP/7 times), I can't recall the name right now. Someone remember other popular image viewers at the time?
Probably it was compupic or acdsee
Re: IrfanView
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
What flickering do you have? I don't see any. As for startup time, I dunno, seems to open in less than half a second for me, though on a relatively high end laptop. On a 10 year old machine it might suffer.
Re: IrfanView
#65Around 2000-2007 I used something similar to this one (Windows XP/7 times), I can't recall the name right now. Someone remember other popular image viewers at the time?
graphic converter for mac OS. I'm still looking for a windows or linux image program that lets you do a slideshow and push a button to move/copy the current image to preset folders - for sorting images.
Re: IrfanView
#66That’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.
Everybody was down with either IrfanView or ACDSee to look at their collection of uudecoded por--er, photographic human figure studies they got off USENET.
Re: IrfanView
#67Ah, the nostalgia when Windows what so shitty that you actually needed a tool for the simplest of the simplest tasks of viewing images in all kinds of formats.
I see no need for it for myself as even Windows has a default image viewer that is enough for me and I mainly use Linux anyway and every decent distro comes with a tool for that. Gnome and KDE both have their own that fit into the DE perfectly.
Re: IrfanView
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
>Who cares what 'most people do'?
Democracy and economics.
>Why are we constantly resorting to this tired refrain of "majority rules"?
It's not constantly, it's the answer to this question. Why are you getting your knickers in a twist?
In this case he gave the answer to the question of why Irfan view isn't popular anymore and the answer is because the majority of people have moved on.
It's not something he decided or that he can change, it's just the fact and he's reported it to you. The fact that you don't like the reality, is your own issue.
Re: IrfanView
#69Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IrfanView
Does anyone know what programming language it is made with? I did a cursory search but cannot find any information. Just curious.
Re: IrfanView
#70That’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.
Still a part of the standard software I install on every new install.