Firehand Ember

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Firehand Ember is a Windows-based image viewer, editor and organizer.

Firehand Ember comes in two editions, a lightweight free edition for image viewing and a heavyweight image processing edition.

The lightweight edition essentially consists of two programs; a browser and a viewer (called a "popup" by the application). The user can configure either to run when an image is double clicked. The browser displays in its window thumbnails for all images in the directory of the selected image. The viewer simply displays the image. If an image is selected in the browser and double clicked, the viewer displays that image. Closing the viewer then takes the user back to the browser.

The viewer (as of version 7.3.1) is excellent but fatally flawed; it lacks the ability to move to other images in the same directory, e.g. hitting space does *not* take the user to the next image in the directory. Obviously, one can argue the browser is for this, but equally obviously, it's far easier to hit space than it is to shuttle back and forth between browser and viewer.

The viewer also lacks the ability to remove its menu, which accordingly needlessly takes up a bit of screen space.