View Link Background Image
...is a very simple Firefox extension created by Jason Beaird & James Booker that allows you to view the background images of links by right-clicking on them just as you would with most other HTML elements. Why? Read the full story behind it.
Install the View Link Background Image Extension
Current Version: 2.0 (12/29/2011) //thanks @mariafray
Try it out
After installing the extension, restart Firefox, return to this page and right-click on each of the white link blocks below.
- On the first one, you should see a new context menu item called
"View Link Background Image".
- The second square looks identical, but the background image is on the list item and not the link itself. If the extension doesn't find a background-image on the link, it will check for a background-image on the parent element. If there is one, it will return that image when you click "View Parent Background Image".
- The third square doesn't have a background image on the link, nor on it's parent list item. Therefore the "View Link Background Image" context menu item is disabled.
- New: Firefox 3.6+ supports multiple background images and now this plugin does too. The same context menu items will show up when you right-click on the 4th & 5th boxes, but when you click them, they'll open all background images applied to the selected element.
The examples below will only work with Firefox 3.6+