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PaperclipPerfector  4mo ago (text post)   2422 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 28, 2024

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Downloading pics in browser often fails for stupid reasons. Suppose when I'm browsing web and clicking "save picture as" and it often fails even if picture has been downloaded. Why does it think it needs to be downloaded anew? They pretend to care about privacy, then why browser programmers want to expose user's action as "open in another tab" (when image url is from another domain, cache is prevented from being used, intentionally or "download") to website? Why does it think user needs a red warning if a pic was downloaded with no-TLS but if it's "failed" then message looks very much like it was downloaded successfully. Sometimes browser can't get the full-res picture and doesn't get it, either because my country blocks website or website itself doesn't like download (e.g. it thinks picture is being 'hotlinked' or my pc needs to go thru cloudflare). Why my browser would cooperate with website owner or censorship not owing to download, rather than me (sometimes i'd be happy with lower res as well)? Very depressing

reddit somehow detects if user wanted to open a picture in another tab and returns HTML instead. why on earth browser is supposed to honor that?

I can't verify this will solve your problems but I use a firefox extension called imagemax url that i guess was intended to find the largest image size but it actually goes through these things that obfuscate the image link so you can just right click and download the image once you click on the extension (it's just a selection in the right click context menu). It's definitely handy for the new annoying trend of making things undownloadable.

firefox extension link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-max-url/?src=external-rfaq

script link: https://openuserjs.org/scripts/qsniyg/Image_Max_URL

EDIT: Also, some images that have been fucked for me with bad headers or whatever, where they won't open in my image viewer or Photoshop, I can open them in paint and just save them again and it has made them usable for me after doing so.

Ah thanks. It solves some but not all shortcomings with it. Is there a firefox extension which allows to view cached content?

All the extensions that I saw that said they did this are defunct now. There's a program for doing it but it sounds like more of a hassle than it's worth if this is happening all the time.

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/mozilla_cache_viewer.html

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