Fork of hoverzoom.net -- this Chrome extension will show an image if you hover its thumbnail or a link.
Read why here: https://gist.github.com/ralph-tice/5087704 or see http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/19oy0s/hoverzoom_has_gone_evil_tracking_browsing_history/ for discussion.
HoverFree will be free to use and help people preview a linked image.
HoverFree will never inject advertising, referral links, adware, spyware, etc.
HoverFree will never track or record browsing activity.
Installation via the Chrome Web Store has been disabled by the original author.
For manual installation, either download https://github.com/miketanderson/hoverfree/archive/master.zip
Or clone the git repo:
git archive --format zip --output ~/hoverfree.zip master
From the Extensions page in Chrome (chrome://extensions/), enable "Developer Mode" via the check box on the top right. Click the "Load Unpacked Extension..." button and open the saved zip file.