If you sometimes download images from Internet websites you might have already considered that the way most web browsers offer to save images is not the most comfortable one. Web users need to right-click each image they want to save and select Save Image from the menu that pops up.
That might be fine if one or two images need to be downloaded but what about dozens, every day? Download managers and add-ons that can batch download images from websites might be an opportunity but they may as well be overkill for downloading just a few selected images.
That’s where Image Fetcher for the Firefox web browser has found its niche. The browser add-on speeds up the process of saving images in the web browser without making the process overly complicated.
It basically displays a Save link whenever the user hovers over an image on a website for some time. That save link can be clicked on with the left mouse button to save the image to the local computer system.
A file save window is displayed which, to be honest, leaves room for further improvements to set a standard download directory to remove the step of selecting it manually whenever the Save link is clicked on.
Image Fetcher is compatible with all Firefox 3.x versions. The add-on is available at the Mozilla Firefox add-on repository.
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If the image is thumbnail, will it save the full size version of the image or just thumbnail ?
It saves the images that are shown, not the ones that are linked.
I use the Image Toolbar extension
which brings the IE Image Toolbar to Firefox
and allows for setting a default download directory
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/243
It does not work if one has NoScript installed
unless the site is given permission for JavaScript.
I use the addon called ‘Easy Drag to Go’ as it is so simple to set up a function for saving images. I have it now so that, when I see an image I want to save I simply click and drag a tiny bit to the left and drop. the image is saved right into a directory called, surprise here – ‘Saved From Net’ inside My Pictures.
Recommended!