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It opens instantly. It shows just the image by default (no toolbars, scroll bars, menu bars, or status bars). I can disable linear interpolation with F3 and sho

It opens instantly. It shows just the image by default (no toolbars, scroll bars, menu bars, or status bars). I can disable linear interpolation with F3 and show width/height of an image with F2. It zooms with the scroll wheel, pans by dragging, and it lets me go to the next, previous, first, and last image of a directory instantly, and doing that won't resize the window. I suppose the key difference is that some people want just a read-only image viewer that traverses a directory, while others want a photo viewer, or image metadata editor, or photo management system. I haven't used Windows' default image viewer in ages, but I recall when I used it, rotating an image actually rotated the image, as in it changed the orientation header of JPEG files and rewrote the files. This is why I have trust issues. If even image viewers can't just view the image, how can I possibly trust the software that drives cars, flies planes, or does the banking?

Semaphor 3y ago
> I suppose the key difference is Not really the difference in context of IrfanView which is also just an image viewer. I tried JpegView, but it’s lacking several features I use in IV, and stuff I commonly do in IV is harder to do, so for me IV is a clear and easy winner. Performance is a little better, but not in a way I’d actually care about (mainly superfast skipping through images is slightly faster)
- AlienRobot 3y ago
  Could you tell me which features do you use in IrfanView that JpegView lacks?
  - Semaphor 3y ago
    Just from memory as I uninstalled it already: * Settings in one place, that way I could have probably easily found out how to remove the annoying zoom-features. * Batch conversion * Slideshow: Add files/folders, not just a textfile or folder * Slideshow: More options in general, e.g. random or unique random.
    - AlienRobot 3y ago
      Thanks. I never use the slideshow features so I guess I didn't notice. I do think it's odd to expect an image viewer to be able to do batch conversion, though. That's what I meant by a read-only image viewer.
      - Semaphor 3y ago
        It does support batch rename, though. And generally I want to resize images while looking at them, and not go elsewhere for that. But only when I want it to, no automation.

Semaphor 3y ago

> I suppose the key difference is Not really the difference in context of IrfanView which is also just an image viewer. I tried JpegView, but it’s lacking several features I use in IV, and stuff I commonly do in IV is harder to do, so for me IV is a clear and easy winner. Performance is a little better, but not in a way I’d actually care about (mainly superfast skipping through images is slightly faster)

AlienRobot 3y ago
Could you tell me which features do you use in IrfanView that JpegView lacks?
- Semaphor 3y ago
  Just from memory as I uninstalled it already: * Settings in one place, that way I could have probably easily found out how to remove the annoying zoom-features. * Batch conversion * Slideshow: Add files/folders, not just a textfile or folder * Slideshow: More options in general, e.g. random or unique random.
  - AlienRobot 3y ago
    Thanks. I never use the slideshow features so I guess I didn't notice. I do think it's odd to expect an image viewer to be able to do batch conversion, though. That's what I meant by a read-only image viewer.
    - Semaphor 3y ago
      It does support batch rename, though. And generally I want to resize images while looking at them, and not go elsewhere for that. But only when I want it to, no automation.