Enhance Your Flickr Experence With Firefox

If you are an avid Flickr user like myself, you might have noticed that Flickr does not have the most intuitive user interface among being one of the most popular sites (especially for photo sharing) currently on the Internet. The navigation portion of Flickr requires the user to use the mouse, a lot. At least it seems that way with me. If you are not using Firefox, why not? Get it now! Leave Microsoft Internet Explorer alone and use one of the better web browsers out there today now! If you want to enhance your web browsing experience not only with Flickr but in general you’ll want to start using Firefox!

Firefox and Greasemonkey Scripts

To enhance your browsing experience you will need to  install a scripting system that works along with Firefox. This scripting system can add features or enhancements that will take your web browsing to a whole new level.  This scripting system is called Greasemonkey. Now I won’t get into the details of how Greasemonkey works, but you can check out their addon page to find out more.

Enhancing Flickr’s Navigation

The main issue I have had with Flickr is the navigation portion between photos in someone’s Flickr photostream, or even a Flickr photo set. There are two scripts I just recently discovered that allows easier transition between photos with the use of the arrows keys. Similar to the way Facebook Albums work actually, you can use the left or right arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate between photos. Thanks to Greasmonkey and two scripts, you can do the same with Flickr too!

Flickr Gallery Plus – Flickr Photoset Navigation

Flickr Gallery Plus allows you to use your left and right arrow keys to cycle through a person’s Flickr Photostream with ease. No more needing to click on a thumbnail to view a larger version of it. It also loads a larger preview of the photo on the left side as you can see from the above screenshot. Pretty cool!

Flickr Next/Previous Keyboard Navigation – Flickr Photostream Navigation

Now this is definitely a Greasemonkey script that I highly recommend if you look at other people’s photos on Flickr a lot. It allows you to go to the previous or next photo by just using your left or right arrows on your keyboard. Just like the way Facebook Albums work. Yes, it is something I do like about Facebook among some of the annoyances I have with it.

I am sure there are tons of other great Flickr Greasemonkey scripts out there for Firefox, but I found these two to be exactly what I have been looking for to make Flickr that much more user friendly in terms of navigating between photos.

Don’t forget to check out my photography on either my Flickr Photostream, or my Photography Blog as well! I’m always capturing new images around the area and love sharing what I see through my camera with other people.