My photo viewer of choice for awhile now has been XnView.
Download XnView here. www.xnview.com/en/
I wrote before about issues opening certain files. Mainly .JFIF and .JPEG. If I double-clicked on either, the browser would open blank, with no picture. I cleared it up once but then it happened again.
So I just decided to uninstall and install XnView again. And it worked. Cleared everything out. But one problem. I lost my tabbed view. There didn't seem to be a setting that directly specified this action and I can't remember what I did originally when I first installed XnView years ago. I like to set XnView so that only one version of the program opens and if I click on more than one picture, they open in tabs.
I had to play around with the settings a bit until I found what I was looking for.
In XnView, click on F12 to open the settings.
Down the left-hand menu click on View and then on the right, click on the View tab.
The first three options, only check "Open only one view for multiple files (setup & drag-drop)". I had the wrong ones checked.
Then click on OK.
If you don't want the tab bar showing when you have only one picture open, in the options, click on Interface in the left-hand menu. Then check "Hide tab bar when only one window is opened".
Then click on OK.