I may have found the cause of the FF Save Image As issue

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February 14th, 2008, 02:11 PM
echoes

I may have found the cause of the FF Save Image As issue

i just noticed two separate things i had noticed before, but not connected before.

when one tries to right-click on an image & clicks "Save Image As", FF wants to save the image as HTML text. that got me thinking, why on earth would it want to save an image as text? then i thought, maybe the board is the "problem", not FF...

then i got the idea to right-click on an image and look at its properties, & sure enough it had "HTML text" (aka "Alternate Text"). i believe this is an HTML feature where one can attach text to an image so that when one hovers over the image a popup displays the text. (like a tag).
so then i checked another image, another, & another and they all have html text "tags"!

so maybe if an admin can disable HTML text on images attached to/with the board (not an external image host of course), maybe the problem will be resolved.

i don't know if an admin can disable/remove HTML text from pics already posted on the board (retroactive), and if not, then perhaps it could be disabled for future posts.
February 14th, 2008, 02:29 PM
gryphondo

Yes, it's definitely always been board problem specific. Every other site I visit, the right click option has always worked with FF. When I had the FF 1.0, it worked here as well, but all the updates by FF since has left the right click ineffective here unless you get the appropriate plug in. :thumbsup:
February 15th, 2008, 02:57 AM
MARKK

In any case if you click, Ctrl. + s. the problem is avoided and you can save the images.
February 15th, 2008, 10:08 AM
Gazo

However if you use Firefox and copy any of the pics I loaded you will notice you can "save as" the original way....reason being of the way that I load them on FF differently....just to confuse more :lol:
February 15th, 2008, 08:12 PM
echoes

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Originally Posted by tricolor

However if you use Firefox and copy any of the pics I loaded you will notice you can "save as" the original way....reason being of the way that I load them on FF differently....just to confuse more :lol:

do you mean by using an external image host?
February 15th, 2008, 08:34 PM
Gazo

No I still use imagizo always.......but when loading a pic I click imagizmo on the very bottom of the page under the submit button and then load and then copy and paste the url.....that is why most of the time the pic size is not visable not the "attached files" inscription is not there...........I find it far faster when loading multiple pics.
March 17th, 2008, 11:22 PM
snakejr

Sounds like a file association problem. if anyone with this problem see's this can ya tell me if in tools/options/content/ then click manage if you have something for the jpg file extension there.
March 18th, 2008, 12:56 AM
echoes

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Originally Posted by snakejr

Sounds like a file association problem. if anyone with this problem see's this can ya tell me if in tools/options/content/ then click manage if you have something for the jpg file extension there.

no offense, but that is not the problem.
March 18th, 2008, 06:37 PM
echoes

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Originally Posted by snakejr

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Originally Posted by echoes

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Originally Posted by snakejr

Sounds like a file association problem. if anyone with this problem see's this can ya tell me if in tools/options/content/ then click manage if you have something for the jpg file extension there.

no offense, but that is not the problem.

well i use ff and don't have this issue

it was confirmed a long, long time ago that it is a firefox issue in relation to this board alone. not everyone that uses firefox experiences it, but a lot do.
April 17th, 2008, 11:58 AM
echoes

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Originally Posted by sholibhak

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Originally Posted by gryphondo

all the updates by FF since has left the right click ineffective here unless you get the appropriate plug in. :thumbsup:

You have a link to or name of such a plugin? :tonqe:

i never did understand what he meant there either. i don't know of any "plugin" (perhaps he meant extension) that would "fix" the issue.

maybe if mike would upgrade the forum software to phpbb3 it would fix the problem.
April 17th, 2008, 12:16 PM
gryphondo

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Originally Posted by echoes

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Originally Posted by sholibhak

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Originally Posted by gryphondo

all the updates by FF since has left the right click ineffective here unless you get the appropriate plug in. :thumbsup:

You have a link to or name of such a plugin? :tonqe:

i never did understand what he meant there either. i don't know of any "plugin" (perhaps he meant extension) that would "fix" the issue.

maybe if mike would upgrade the forum software to phpbb3 it would fix the problem.

To answer sholibhak, no I don't have a link or name of such plugin/extension. I don't need it or want it. Why bother? I just click File and then Save Page as... Of course one can always use the Ctrl. + s.
April 17th, 2008, 12:59 PM
gryphondo

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Originally Posted by echoes

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Originally Posted by gryphondo

To answer sholibhak, no I don't have a link or name of such plugin/extension. I don't need it or want it. Why bother? I just click File and then Save Page as... Of course one can always use the Ctrl. + s.

with the menu editor extension you can add "Save Page As" to the right-click context menu.

All of this stuff has been discussed before. Some of it multiple times.