HUGE freaking thanks. I was losing my mind over this, and alas: A quick and easy fix for one of Reddit's worst UX decisions of all time.*

(Okay, so technically I've since switched from this extension to a browser userscript that does the same thing, but this one works identically for solving the problem. Oh and BTW if any of you prefer that option, there's an issue in this project's Github repo that contains a working one.)

The problem this extension fixes is so annoying. Even after you click the image and Reddit forwards you to preview.redd.it, it was still practically impossible to display the raw image in a browser tab without downloading it to disk first! (And doing so is practically required if you want to zoom in, since the Reddit photo viewer's built-in zoom functionality is next to useless.)

*(Second only to "Continue this thread" navigating to an entirely new page to show you the remaining 2 comments. Dumb dumb.)

Instant fix. Does it get any better than that?

I love you have my children

Works as intended. It even works fine with old reddit redirector without any further tweaking (presuming that redirector is properly configured for media).

Big plus for the permission access too. Thanks nopperl!

Reddit deleted their QA department.

You. You are amazing. I wish you nothing but infinite ice cream and cold pillows for the rest of your life

GOAT that shines upon us in the era of UX-crippling corpo-bs

Brilliant, simple, and a huge time saver.

Yup

sites should not be allowed to mess with the opening image in new tab. good addon.

Does the job