picture viewer in Leopard

Whenever I want to view a picture in FF (3.0.5) or Safari or such, it
opens in an overlay window, with a while frame, which adjusts to the
size of the picture, while the background web-window gets greyed out.
The annoying thing about this is that this frame can only be closed, but
not moved to look at the webpage that has been greyed out in the
background at the same time. So it is impossible to at the same time
inspect to picture and read its description (most of which is likely
obscured by this overlay frame, let alone that it is greyed out) nor
type a reply or take some other action while viewing.

I have not been able to find out what viewer this is and how to avoid
opening the picture in this frame. I would much rather FF opened a
separate window which I can move out of the way and get back to w/o
disturbing my ability to browse with the window that it was opened in.
At first I thought this was an FF thing, but the same happens in Safari.
It does somewhat look like this viewer may be a special form of Preview,
but I cannot find any way to change its behaviour. Nor does globally
changing the action to take for .jpg files etc to 'open in Firefox'
make it not open in this strange viewer.

Does anyone here have any hint how I can configure my OS to not use this
viewer for pictures (opened from FF, Safari etc) but to have the
browsers open the pictures in their own window?

Any help is appreciated. This is for the latest Leopard

M

On 2008-12-29 17:55:02 +0000, Mathias Koerber <mathias RemoveThis @koerber.org> said:

> Whenever I want to view a picture in FF (3.0.5) or Safari or such, it
> opens in an overlay window, with a while frame, which adjusts to the
> size of the picture, while the background web-window gets greyed out.
> The annoying thing about this is that this frame can only be closed, but
> not moved to look at the webpage that has been greyed out in the
> background at the same time. So it is impossible to at the same time
> inspect to picture and read its description (most of which is likely
> obscured by this overlay frame, let alone that it is greyed out) nor
> type a reply or take some other action while viewing.
>
> I have not been able to find out what viewer this is and how to avoid
> opening the picture in this frame.

It is done with Javascript and CSS from the web site - it is not an OS
X feature.

> I would much rather FF opened a
> separate window which I can move out of the way and get back to w/o
> disturbing my ability to browse with the window that it was opened in.
> At first I thought this was an FF thing, but the same happens in Safari.
> It does somewhat look like this viewer may be a special form of Preview,
> but I cannot find any way to change its behaviour. Nor does globally
> changing the action to take for .jpg files etc to 'open in Firefox'
> make it not open in this strange viewer.
>
> Does anyone here have any hint how I can configure my OS to not use this
> viewer for pictures (opened from FF, Safari etc) but to have the
> browsers open the pictures in their own window?

Disable Javascript in the web browser? Or open Safari's Activity
Window, and find the actual image referenced there?
--
Chris