Still use it. It’s faster to open and move through photos than the windows built in one.
IrfanView
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Re: IrfanView
#72That’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.
I see so many comments these days bemoaning how slow modern software has gotten, but no one seems to remember/have been alive for the time when just rendering an image would take multiple seconds.
Just goes to show that our expectations scale with the available technology.
Re: IrfanView
#73Why 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
I use JPEGView nowadays https://github.com/sylikc/jpegview
Does it have feature parity? Just from the list it looks like it only supports a small fraction of what Irfan view does.
Re: IrfanView
#74Wikipedia 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.
I don't know for sure, but C++ is always a good guess with that kind of software.
Re: IrfanView
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I rarely use Windows these days, but IrfanView feels lightning fast compared to the built-in Photos app or whatever they call it. I started using IV I think on Win 98 and it's still as snappy and reliable as it always has been.
Re: IrfanView
#76Dear Irfan!
Thank you very much.
From myself (1995-...) and my father (1995-2003).
Re: IrfanView
#77Why 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
I prefer JPEGView on Windows. What do you think is the best alternative for Linux?
Just saw this mentioned above, might as well ask here: why? It looks to only support a small fraction of features.
Re: IrfanView
#78Why 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…
"...and people now have most of their pics in the cloud or on their phone,"
...until Google closes their account or their data becomes otherwise inaccessible!
It horrifies me that so many people are so willing to commit their valuable data to the cloud just because of convenience.
Leaving aside Big Tech's spying on users and selling away their privacy, users who commit data to the cloud put its integrity and ultimately its long-term survival in the hands of third parties who couldn't give a damn whether it was lost or destroyed—their only interest is the income it generates.
That the shift to the cloud has been so complete is very disconcerting. It never ceases to amaze me that so many are so trusting of others that they'd actually hand over their valuable data for safekeeping to the likes of Google, et al. I've used the internet since before the inception of the Web and I've never once committed any of my data to the cloud (but if I had to then it'd be an encrypted backup).
Re IrfanView, I used to use Ed Hamrick's rather excellent image viewer VuePrint until I came across IrfanView about two decades ago. For numerous reasons IrfanView is the best viewer out there.
Re: IrfanView
#79When I have a hundred million images scattered on my computer and I need to quickly see them, nothing like a good script to herd them in a plain txt file and piping it to irfanview! No fidgeting with sixels, bat, or any other gui application. Hands down the fastest way… IMHO.
Re: IrfanView
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 e…
I'm guessing even if they knew the tool existed they would still rather ask you to do it. Not everyone wants to understand computers or download programs
More importantly, not everybody wants to be entirely self reliant. They're ok with small task delegation.