The common way of saving images hosted on web pages in the Firefox Internet browser is to right-click each individual image, select Save Image As from the context menu and browse to a location in the opening file browser. There are extensions available to save multiple images at once. Capable extensions include Image Picker, Image Download II or Image Saver.
The Firefox add-on Context Menu Image Saver is different, as it speeds up the downloading of individual images instead of all images on a web page. It does so by adding direct download locations to the Firefox right-click image context menu. A selection of those, saves the image directly without the save as dialog.
The configured download locations appear at the top of the context menu, which makes it an extremely comfortable option to save images quickly to the desired location.
The extension ships with no download directories configured, which means that you need to access the options first to add one or multiple download locations.
This is a very straightforward process. Open the Firefox add-ons manager first by entering about:addons in the address bar, or via the Tools > Add-Ons menu. Locate Context Menu Image Saver in the add-ons listing and select Options.
A click on New can be used to add a new download location for images. All you need to specify is a folder on the local system. I was not able to figure out what the prefix parameter was for. It is not needed to save images directly via the context menu. The prefix is added to the image file name on the local systek. You can add multiple download locations, which is handy if you regularly save different kinds of images to different folders. You can furthermore edit or deleted images, or add a separator which then becomes visible in the context menu as well.
Once you have added at least one download location you can utilize it with a right-click. Context Menu Image Saver remembers the last download directory. You can speed up the saving of additional images further by holding down the Ctrl key before pressing the right mouse button. This saves the image directly without displaying the right click context menu first.
Context Menu Image Saver is helpful for users who download images regularly and selectively. It is compatible with all versions of Firefox from Firefox 3 on. Firefox Aurora and Nightly users need to force compatibility, for instance with the Add-on Compatibility Reporter extension.
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An alternative is ‘Save File To’ ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-file-to/ ) which handles per-format downloads, not only images.