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Read pixiv the way you read X.
Click an artwork on a user page, the home page or search results and it opens right there, without navigating away. Page through multi-image works, play ugoira, read the caption and comments, like, bookmark, follow and post a comment - all inside the viewer. Close it and you are back on the grid, at the scroll position you left.
On to the next work, without leaving the grid
Every artwork you open costs you a page load, and every step back costs you your place. This extension removes that round trip.
Opens in place
The viewer takes over the grid click and renders without navigating. Besides the works list on user pages, works on the home page and in search results open this way too. The URL still changes to the artwork page, so reloading and sharing both work.
Multi-image works
Arrow keys and the on-screen arrows page through the work. With the setting on, clicking the left or right edge of the screen does too. Neighbouring images are prefetched, so there is nothing to wait for.
Work to work
Up and down move to the previous or next work in the grid. With the setting on, clicking the top or bottom edge of the screen does too. On user pages, reaching the end loads the next page for you, and on the illustration and manga tabs only works of that kind are visited. On the home page and in search results, you move within the section of the work you clicked.
Ugoira playback
The zip is decoded into frames and played in the viewer. A control bar along the bottom lets you play and pause, drag the seek bar to any frame, and change the speed from 0.25× to 2×.
Actual size
Click the image to open it at actual size, filling the screen. You can keep paging through the work while it is open.
Read and write comments
Stamps and emoji are rendered as images, replies expand in place, and more comments load on demand. Posting, replying and deleting your own comments all work without leaving the viewer.
Like and bookmark
Follow and share to X, Facebook, Pawoo or the clipboard, all from inside the viewer. Hold Shift while bookmarking to keep it private. None of them are shown on your own works.
Dark and light
The viewer follows pixiv's own theme setting, so there is no second preference to keep in sync. The settings popup has its own switch in its top right.
Fine-tune it
On the settings popup's Advanced tab, pick the sidebar width and how many comments load at once from preset steps, and set the background darkness and click area widths with sliders. The edge click area takes separate left/right and top/bottom widths, and prefetch can be set anywhere from 1 to 20 images each way.
The caption and comments, beside the image
The sidebar carries the caption, tags, post date, like / bookmark / view counts, and the author's avatar and follow button. Comments render stamps and emoji as images, and replies open in place.
- Scroll the whole sidebar, or pin the caption and scroll only the comments
- If a request fails, retry picks up where it stopped
- A like you already gave in another tab is never counted twice
- Hide the sidebar entirely to see nothing but the image
Reply without closing anything
Comments and replies can be posted with the viewer still open. The box grows with what you type, and emoji and stamps come from a panel. Ctrl + Enter sends; Enter is a line break.
- Your own comments can be deleted behind a two-step confirmation
- Esc will not close the viewer while a draft is unsent
- A comment posted here is exactly a comment posted on pixiv
An uninterrupted list
The paginator on illustration and manga listings can be replaced with continuous loading. The page number in the URL follows whatever is on screen, so a reload brings you back to roughly the same place.
- Load when you reach the bottom, or always keep one page ahead
- Hide the pickup section on a profile home to get straight to the works
Fine-tune the extension your way
Open the popup from the toolbar icon. Settings are grouped into viewer, image, user page and interaction, so you can shape everything from how artworks look to how the viewer responds.
- Pick the image resolution and how many pages to prefetch, to suit your connection
- Choose whether to use the viewer on user pages, the home page and search results, one by one
- Choose how the sidebar appears and scrolls, whether clicking the backdrop closes the viewer, and even whether clicking the screen edges moves you along
- On the Advanced tab, pick the sidebar width and how many comments load at once from preset steps, and fine-tune the background darkness and click area widths with sliders
- Related options are grouped as parent and child. While a parent is off, its children cannot be changed, and the popup tells you which option to turn on
- Turn the viewer off and pixiv behaves exactly as it did before, while hiding the pickup section, infinite scroll and grid tab order keep working
What you can change
Everything lives in the toolbar popup. Everyday options are on the Settings tab, and finer adjustments such as the sidebar width and the width of the click areas are on the Advanced tab. Related options are grouped as parent and child: while a parent is off, its children cannot be changed. (Children are indented in the table below. Options on the Advanced tab also follow the related ones, such as the sidebar and edge clicks.) Settings are kept in the browser's sync storage and are never sent anywhere.
| Group | Setting | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viewer | Use the viewer | On | Turn it off and pixiv behaves normally. Hide the Pickup section, Infinite scroll and Tab movement in the grid keep working even when it is off |
| Viewer | Use on user pages | On | Shows the viewer when you open an artwork from a user page's artwork list |
| Viewer | Use on the home page | On | Shows the viewer for artworks on pixiv's home (Home / Illustrations / Manga tabs) |
| Viewer | Use on search results | On | Shows the viewer when you open an artwork from search results (tag pages and the search screen) |
| Viewer | Show the sidebar | On | Caption, tags, counts and comments beside the image. When off, a link to the artwork page appears next to the close button. On narrow screens, open it with the button at the top right |
| Viewer | Sidebar scrolling | Whole sidebar | Scroll caption and comments as one, or pin the caption and scroll only the comments |
| Images | Image resolution | Standard | Original is sharper but slower to load |
| Images | Prefetch | 1 image each way | How many neighbouring pages to load ahead of time: Off, 1 or 3 images each way, or Custom, which lets you choose 1 to 20 each way with a slider. At 10 or more, a note warns that it uses a lot of memory |
| Images | Also prefetch the adjacent artwork | Off | After an artwork finishes showing, prefetches just one artwork you may move to next |
| Images | Click to view at actual size | Off | Clicking the image opens it at actual size, filling the screen |
| User pages | Hide the Pickup section | Off | Hides the "Pickup" section on a profile home |
| User pages | Infinite scroll | Off | Load at the bottom, or always keep one page ahead |
| Controls | Click the background to close | On | Whether clicking outside the image closes the viewer |
| Controls | Click the edges to navigate | Off | The left and right edges of the screen turn pages, the top and bottom edges switch artworks. Choose left/right only, top/bottom only, or both. Edges you cannot move past show a not-allowed cursor, so they are easy to tell from the empty area that closes the viewer |
| Controls | Tab movement in the grid | Do not skip | Whether Tab skips the bookmark button and title in artwork lists (user pages, the home page and search results). Artist links are not skipped |
Advanced tab
| Group | Setting | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viewer | Sidebar width | 384px | Width of the sidebar shown on the right when the window is wide. Choose 320, 384, 448 or 512px |
| Viewer | Pulled-out sidebar width | 60% | Maximum width, relative to the window, of the sidebar you pull out when the window is narrow (900px wide or less). Choose 50, 60, 70 or 80% |
| Viewer | Background darkness | Match the theme | How dark the black layer behind the image is: match the theme (92% in dark mode, 88% in light mode) or, with Custom, choose from 0% to 100% in 10% steps with a slider. Lower values let the page behind show through |
| Controls | Edge click area width | 25% | Width of the edges used for edge-click navigation, relative to the image area. With Custom, choose the left/right and top/bottom widths separately, from 5% to 35% in 5% steps. When only left/right or only top/bottom is in use, the width for the unused direction cannot be changed |
| Controls | Actual-size click area width | 25% | Width of the left and right edges used to turn pages in actual-size view. With Custom, choose from 5% to 35% in 5% steps |
| Comments | Comments loaded at once | 30 comments | Number of comments loaded when an artwork opens and when you press "Show more". Choose 10, 20, 30 or 50. Applies from the next artwork you open |
Keyboard
Esc closes the emoji panel, then actual size or the share menu, then the viewer. It will not close the viewer while a draft is unsent.
While you are writing a comment, Enter is a line break and ← → ↑ ↓ move the caret instead of the work.
With the ugoira seek bar focused, ← → step one frame at a time, while ↑ ↓ still switch works.
Requirements
Any Chromium-based browser with Manifest V3 support, and Firefox.
Browsers
Chrome, Brave, Edge and other Chromium browsers. Chrome 120 or newer is required. Edge can also install it from Edge Add-ons. Firefox (desktop, Firefox 140 or newer) can install it from Firefox Add-ons. Safari is not supported.
Where it runs
User pages, the home page (Home, Illustrations and Manga tabs) and search results (tag pages and the search screen) on https://www.pixiv.net/. It does nothing on any other site.
License
The source is published on GitHub. The disclaimer and the third-party notices for the bundled assets are in the license tab of the settings popup.
Languages
The extension follows the display language you have set on pixiv. The table covers the seven display languages pixiv offers. If pixiv is shown in a language marked "On request", the extension uses English.
| Language | Status |
|---|---|
| Japanese | Supported |
| English | Supported |
| Korean | Supported |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Supported |
| Chinese (Traditional) | Supported |
| Thai | On request |
| Malay | On request |
Bugs and requests
Send bug reports, questions and feature requests through the contact form. GitHub Issues work too.
Your data never leaves pixiv
The extension has no server of its own. The only thing it talks to is the pixiv you already have open, and pixiv's image CDN.
Never collected
Browsing history, artwork IDs, user IDs, cookies, credentials, personal information. None of it is read, stored or transmitted. A comment you write is handed straight to pixiv and never kept by the extension.
What is stored
The 27 preferences you choose, plus the pixiv display language it last saw. Both stay inside your browser and never leave it.
Permissions
Just storage and https://www.pixiv.net/*. No access to any other site is requested.
This is an unofficial extension.
It was built on top of the pixiv platform and is not created or distributed by pixiv Inc. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by pixiv Inc. in any way.
- Use it at your own risk. Neither the author nor pixiv Inc. is liable for any damage arising from its use
- Age-restricted works follow your pixiv account settings. The extension never works around them
- A like cannot be undone. That is how pixiv works, so a misclick cannot be taken back
- Posting and deleting comments behaves exactly as it does on pixiv itself. A deletion cannot be undone, so it sits behind a two-step confirmation
- There is nothing here for collecting works. No downloads, no batch automation - only the work you have open and the range you chose to prefetch are fetched
- Changes on pixiv's side may break it at any time