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Can't save images in Firefox...
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| Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell 2006-09-06, 1:15 am |
| Suddenly, I am unable to save any images from any website (jpg, gif so
far...) to my desktop, or to anywhere else on my computer.
I don't think I've changed any settings... it works fine in IE 6.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be going on? I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.6
Thanks!
Carmen
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| Mozilla Champion (Dan) 2006-09-06, 1:15 am |
| Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell wrote:
> Suddenly, I am unable to save any images from any website (jpg, gif so
> far...) to my desktop, or to anywhere else on my computer.
>
> I don't think I've changed any settings... it works fine in IE 6.
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> Does anyone have any ideas what could be going on? I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.6
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> Thanks!
>
> Carmen
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What happens when you try?
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| Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell wrote:
> Suddenly, I am unable to save any images from any website (jpg, gif so
> far...) to my desktop, or to anywhere else on my computer.
>
> I don't think I've changed any settings... it works fine in IE 6.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what could be going on? I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.6
>
> Thanks!
>
> Carmen
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click on Tools, Downloads, and clean up the download manager. Does it
work now?
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Pic of the day:
http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?...goodhomeor3.jpg
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| Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell 2006-09-06, 7:12 am |
| > click on Tools, Downloads, and clean up the download manager. Does it
> work now?
No, and my download manager had already been cleaned out... any other ideas?
Thanks!
C.
"gwtc" <TheNewGWTC@4iVWMRLYahp.U7yjsIFfetn> wrote in message
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> Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell wrote:
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> --
> Pic of the day:
> http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?...goodhomeor3.jpg
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| Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell 2006-09-06, 7:12 am |
| > What happens when you try?
Absolutely nothing. In other words, I go through every step you have to take
when saving a picture, but when I go look for the picture, there's nothing
there... but it works in IE (insert
uncomfortable-looking-I-have-just-touched-something-slimy shiver here! ;-)
Strange, huh?! I think I may just try re-installing Firefox and see what
happens. Probably just one of those ripples in the time-space continuum...
C.
"Mozilla Champion (Dan)" <moz.champion@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell wrote:
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| Big Craigie 2006-09-06, 7:12 am |
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"gwtc" <TheNewGWTC@4iVWMRLYahp.U7yjsIFfetn> wrote in message
news:44fe6367$1@news.henrynet.se...
> Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell wrote:
> click on Tools, Downloads, and clean up the download manager. Does it
> work now?
>
> --
> Pic of the day:
> http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?...goodhomeor3.jpg
I trust you are doing right click...save image as...then saving it to the
destinition of your choice
BC
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| Roland de Ruiter 2006-09-06, 1:13 pm |
| On 6-9-2006 12:41, Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell wrote:
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> No, and my download manager had already been cleaned out... any other ideas?
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> Thanks!
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> C.
>[...]
1) Which theme are you using? Try to revert to Firefox' default theme
(Tools > Themes, and restart FF).
2) Open the Javascript console (Tools > JavaScript Console), clear
messages already there. Then try to save an image, and look at the JS
console if any messages appear.
3) Start Firefox in safe-mode. Can you save an image in safe-mode? [In
safe mode, all extensions are disabled, and the default FF theme is used.]
To start in safe-mode, close FF completely, then in Windows use Start >
Mozilla Firefox > Firefox (Safe Mode). See also
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode>.
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Regards,
Roland
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| Mozilla Champion (Dan) 2006-09-06, 1:13 pm |
| Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell wrote:
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> Absolutely nothing. In other words, I go through every step you have to take
> when saving a picture, but when I go look for the picture, there's nothing
> there... but it works in IE (insert
> uncomfortable-looking-I-have-just-touched-something-slimy shiver here! ;-)
>
> Strange, huh?! I think I may just try re-installing Firefox and see what
> happens. Probably just one of those ripples in the time-space continuum...
>
> C.
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> "Mozilla Champion (Dan)" <moz.champion@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:ofqLg.26409$mY1.24623@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
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It would be a lot easier if you bottom posted thanks. Answers follow
questions in chronological sequence then.
Try changing the destination you are saving to, try just the desktop for
example. any luck?
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| In article <uTpLg.32793$sS1.15582@read1.cgocable.net>, seegod1@cogeco.ca
says...
> Suddenly, I am unable to save any images from any website (jpg, gif so
> far...) to my desktop, or to anywhere else on my computer.
>
> I don't think I've changed any settings... it works fine in IE 6.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what could be going on? I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.6
I assume you use Windows.
To make sure that Fx understands image types, you could try to make Fx
smaller than your computer screen, i.e. not maximized. Then load a page
that contains some image of known type, like GIF or something. Grab the
image using the mouse pointer, and drag the image onto the (now) visible
Desktop and drop it there.
If you don't get a "target accepts dragged object" mouse pointer (i.e. a
small square around the tip of the pointer) but a "stop sign," and
subsequently no image, you probably have some very weird problems in
your installation.
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faun.
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| Mozilla Champion (Dan) wrote:
> It would be a lot easier if you bottom posted thanks. Answers follow
> questions in chronological sequence then.
He did quote the relevant question that he was answering, "> What
happens when you try?", above the answer. The only better thing he
should have done was trim/delete the rest of the previous post.
As long as you're using any sort of news reader, you're going to have
the previous post displayed above.
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| Nicik Name 2006-09-09, 1:14 am |
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"Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell" <seegod1@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
news:uTpLg.32793$sS1.15582@read1.cgocable.net...
> Suddenly, I am unable to save any images from any website (jpg, gif so
> far...) to my desktop, or to anywhere else on my computer.
>
> I don't think I've changed any settings... it works fine in IE 6.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what could be going on? I'm using Firefox
1.5.0.6
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> Thanks!
>
> Carmen
Are you pressing SAVE in the My Pictures or the folder you are in?
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| Redvee 2006-09-09, 1:14 am |
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"Nicik Name" <orbits@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> "Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell" <seegod1@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
> news:uTpLg.32793$sS1.15582@read1.cgocable.net...
> 1.5.0.6
> Are you pressing SAVE in the My Pictures or the folder you are in?
Have you tried the 'image toolbar' extension?. Works just like the IE
picture toolbar, you can save, print or copy the image.
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| Redvee 2006-09-09, 1:14 am |
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"Redvee" <service@thebar.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Nicik Name" <orbits@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:8YkMg.9134$xQ1.3255@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
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> Have you tried the 'image toolbar' extension?. Works just like the IE
> picture toolbar, you can save, print or copy the image.
>
The link I couldn't find earlier
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/243/
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| Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell 2006-09-09, 1:12 pm |
| Okay, let me add to the weirdness... I can't save an image using the right
click command, but if I left click and drag to my desktop... then it'll save
it.
Anyone?!
C.
"Faun" <faun@the.woods.gro> wrote in message
news:MPG.1f6943b848c4085989b08@news.alt.net...
> In article <uTpLg.32793$sS1.15582@read1.cgocable.net>, seegod1@cogeco.ca
> says...
>
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> I assume you use Windows.
>
> To make sure that Fx understands image types, you could try to make Fx
> smaller than your computer screen, i.e. not maximized. Then load a page
> that contains some image of known type, like GIF or something. Grab the
> image using the mouse pointer, and drag the image onto the (now) visible
> Desktop and drop it there.
>
> If you don't get a "target accepts dragged object" mouse pointer (i.e. a
> small square around the tip of the pointer) but a "stop sign," and
> subsequently no image, you probably have some very weird problems in
> your installation.
> --
> faun.
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| In article <tuyMg.44877$sS1.6305@read1.cgocable.net>, seegod1@cogeco.ca
says...
> Okay, let me add to the weirdness... I can't save an image using the right
> click command, but if I left click and drag to my desktop... then it'll save
> it.
Then I think you need to follow the ideas you have already been given,
like starting in safe mode, create a new user profile, and so on.
Most likely there is either an extension behaving badly, or you have
some setting that has been set in a way it shouldn't, or a combination
of the two.
--
faun.
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| Janice P. 2006-12-09, 7:12 am |
| On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:39:57 -0700, gwtc
<TheNewGWTC@4iVWMRLYahp.U7yjsIFfetn> posted:
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>close FF, then using your file manager, locate the file downloads.rdf
>which is located in the FF profile. Once found, delete it. Now try
>again. Does it work this time?
FYI to interested folks: It's now mid-December and I came here looking for
help with the same problem: Firefox absolutely would not save images, even
though it went through the procedure normally. There was simply nothing on
the hard drive afterwards.
I saw this three month old thread and located and deleted downloads.rdf as
recommended above, and it worked.
J.
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