Every time I drag an image to the desktop, firefox downloads links to an image instead od downloading the image directly.
Every time I try clicking and dragging an image, it downloads a link instead, and I have to right click the image,click save image as, ask it where to download it, and click download. Anyone knows how to fix this? I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, and my search engine is google chrome.
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Hmm, did you mention Google because this problem is specific to Google image results?
Does it work any better if you:
- right-click the image and click Copy Image
- then right-click the desktop (or a blank area of a folder) and click Paste
Yes, this happens in google images. But when I use bing, it does not have this problem. And copying and pasting doesn't seem to be possible because my desktop has the "paste" button grayed out.
I think a script in the image results page is intercepting and blanking the clipboard to make it hard to copy from the page. This may be difficult to bypass without breaking copy/paste on a number of sites.
In addition to the Save Image As method, you can Ctrl+click/Middle-click the View Image button (on the right side of the black panel) to view the image stand-alone in a new tab (on its original address) where copying should work normally. That might be a little faster.
When I view an image in another tab, I can drag and drop successfully, but I still would want to click and drag directly from the image on the page.