Closed Bug 1625487 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Saving images via drag-and-drop from Google images gives un-openable images due to View Image add-on

Categories

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

74 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: maxmwood, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:74.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/74.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open google images
Search anything
Click an image
Right click on enlarged image - copy image location
Paste image location in to a new tab
Drag and drop full size image to folder on hard drive

In my case also using this addon that restores the "View Image" button that Google removed so I don't have to right click, copy image location, etc - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/view-image/

Actual results:

Drag and drop from google images to a folder gives me a file called "search" - the properties are jpg but there's no thumbnail preview and windows photos says "it appears that we don't support this file format."

Expected results:

Image should be regular jpg, openable as normal.

I can't reproduce it, but I am running GNU/Linux. Could you try in safe mode? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode#w_how-to-start-firefox-in-safe-mode

Flags: needinfo?(maxmwood)

(In reply to Michel Le Bihan from comment #1)

I can't reproduce it, but I am running GNU/Linux. Could you try in safe mode? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode#w_how-to-start-firefox-in-safe-mode

Thanks for the reply and the link Michel.

That fixed it and after some more experimentation it seems like the View Image addon is the cause. I guess I'll have to get in touch with the developer and let them know.

Thanks

Flags: needinfo?(maxmwood)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Component: Untriaged → Extension Compatibility
Summary: Saving images via drag-and-drop from Google images gives un-openable images → Saving images via drag-and-drop from Google images gives un-openable images due to View Image add-on
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