1409740 - Ability to show image file name in context menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

That is (at least optionally) appending the image file name in brackets (ellipsising the file name if we reach the maximum context menu width) to the View Image/View Background Image context menu entries.

At the moment this is possible via an add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/view-image-filename/, and apparently at one point a long time ago we already did this natively), but due to the various restrictions placed on Webextensions an replacement add-on seems unlikely.

One particular use case is e.g. knowing whether the image you right-clicked on is actually the image you're interested in, or just some transparent click-protection dummy, but there are other situations as well where being to see the image file name without having to copy the image address and then pasting it somewhere might come in handy.

Comment 1

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Many images on the web today may be a hash that is indecipherable to users. If it's not a hash, it is likely that the filename is apparent and obvious. I think the case of the transparent/click-protection dummy is minor enough that it doesn't warrant us to support this feature in the core product. An add-on could still support this through the context menu API it just wouldn't be able to modify existing context menu entries.