Geothumbs v3.3

New version for Geocaching.com January 2010 update

Geothumbs is a greasemonkey script that replaces the small picture icons on geocaching.com cache pages with thumbnails of the actual images. It works with Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome browsers.

Clicking an image thumbnail will pop-up the full sized image in the existing 'lightbox' feature. Clicking the sides of this full sized image will allow you to move between all the images currently shown on the cache page. Clicking the text description next to the image thumbnail will bypass the 'lightbox' and display the image directly. To provide some protection against seeing spoilers any image labelled as such will not be converted to a thumbnail.

For Firefox users a menu option is provided to configure geothumbs to your preferred operation. The menu is accessed by selecting Tools > Greasemonkey > User Script Commands. The geothumbs options here will allow you to:
  • Show or not show cache owner images.
  • Show or not show image descriptions alongside the thumbnails.
  • Select the number of images in a row from between 2 and 4.
  • Select either the normal thumbnail size or a larger image size.
  • Show or not show spoiler images.
The default settings are to show cache owner images, show image descriptions, display 2 images per row, use thumbnail image size and not show spoilers.

Opera and Chrome users will need to edit the parameters in the script if they wish to change the default settings.

Notes:
Due to the lack of small images on geocaching.com for cache owner posted images this script downloads the fullsize image and relies on the browser to resize it to the required thumbnail or large image size. You may want to turn this option off if you don't have a fast internet connection!

You might like to install Locus Prime's Show All Logs script which will open each cache page with all logs shown. This will allow you to view all the available images on a cache page and not just those of the first five logs.

Normal log:
Log Before

Thumbnailed log:
Log After

Normal cache owner image section:
Cache owner images before

Thumbnailed cache owner image section:
Cache owner images after

Firefox installation: Install script

To install click on the icon above and click on the "Install" button. If this doesn't work, right-click on the icon, and select "Install User Script". If you don't see the menu option, click on the icon to open the file in a new tab (or window), and select "Install This User Script" from the Tools menu. Please ensure that you've installed the Firefox Greasemonkey add-on before attempting to install this script.

Opera installation: Install script

First enable Opera to run user scripts by selecting Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Content > JavaScript options, and choose a directory where you want to put this script. After doing this right-click on the icon above and select "Save Linked Content As..." and save it in your chosen directory.

Chrome installation: Install script

To install click on the icon above and when asked "Are you sure want to continue" select "Continue", then click on "Install" to install the script. If you don't get asked the above questions then check you are running Chrome beta and not the standard version of chrome.



This script works with:
Version History:

v3.3
Allow operation in Google Chrome beta
Fix bug that stopped images being shown when logged out

v3.2
Move position of owner images before map to avoid overlap and reduce whitespace

v3.1
Minor cosmetic update to shrink border around images and increase size of image box

v3.0
Updated to work with Geocaching.com site changes made in January 2010

v2.5
Added option to show or not show image descriptions with thumbnails.
Added image descriptions to lightbox images.

v2.0
Added option to show cache owner images.
Added option to select the number of thumbnail images in a row.
Added option to show the normail thumbnail or a larger image.
Added option to always show spoiler images.

v1.0
Show thumbnail images and clean up image tooltips.

For support please contact us via our geocaching profile - Gary & Jane