I was able to reproduce the issue on old.lemmy.world, except that I don't get "Save Image As..." in either Chromium (I don't have Chrome) or Firefox. Poking around in the Developer Tools, it looks like old.lemmy.world displays images by setting them as background images for some reason:
I would consider that a bug, so you might consider submitting an issue to whoever's responsible for old.lemmy.world (maybe start by posting in https://old.lemmy.world/c/support@lemmy.world).
This is the issue.
Thats probably the issue.
What's in your right-click menu? I see "Save image as..." without changing any setting.
that's the context menu I get on old.lemmy.
It turns out that on some websites, I do get the option to "save image as". But others I don't. the option is there on imgur and some lemmy instances, but not other lemmy instances or Reddit. Very puzzling. Firefox should know that what I'm right clicking on is an image, because it gives me the option to open it in another tab. Why can't I just save it directly without doing that?
It may be a .webp thing. I've had issues saving .webp images in the past, so much so I gave up and installed this extension. If it is a webp issue, it is likely b/c websites will prioritize .webp images rather than .jpg if your browser supports it.
Try opening the image in a new tab and looking its extension in the URL bar
Also, fuck webp files when I’m trying to do a quick photoshop project.
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