I recently have been trying to switch from Chrome to Firefox, based upon encouragement from this sub. There have been a few minor bumps along the way.
One interruption arises when I tried to save an image. In chrome I was accustomed to right-clicking on the image and choosing “Save Image As…” But this does not show up as an option for me in the context menu with Firefox.
It’s strange, because web searches trying to solve the problem suggest that it used to appear as a context menu option.
Right now I’m forced to take a multistep option of opening the image in another tab, and then saving it.
Is there some kind of setting I can change, so that I can get the option to right-click and save an image?
Thanks so much.
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that’s the context menu I get on old.lemmy.
It turns out that on some websites, I do get the option to “save image as”. But others I don’t. the option is there on imgur and some lemmy instances, but not other lemmy instances or Reddit. Very puzzling. Firefox should know that what I’m right clicking on is an image, because it gives me the option to open it in another tab. Why can’t I just save it directly without doing that?
It may be a .webp thing. I’ve had issues saving .webp images in the past, so much so I gave up and installed this extension. If it is a webp issue, it is likely b/c websites will prioritize .webp images rather than .jpg if your browser supports it.
Try opening the image in a new tab and looking its extension in the URL bar
On my desktop I can drag images to the desktop (Windows 10) if its a webp. Then it’s an extra step to convert it through IrfanView to jpg.
Not the best option but a work-around.
I’ve had this happen randomly. Not all the time. Usually a refresh does away with it. Or you can use Inspect and load the image in a new tab.