# How do I download an image to disk on Firefox? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 9, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-download-an-image-to-disk-on-firefox/379655 "2006-11-09T03:22:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-download-an-image-to-disk-on-firefox/379655/1 "2006-11-09T03:22:12Z")
On Internet Explorer you can download an image to disk simply by holding your mouse down on an image for a few seconds and selecting “download an image to disk”. This does not seem to work on Firefox, so what is the procedure? ---
**Author:** ![ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ed)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-download-an-image-to-disk-on-firefox/379655/2 "2006-11-09T03:24:45Z")
Right-click, “save image as”. ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-download-an-image-to-disk-on-firefox/379655/3 "2006-11-09T03:25:52Z")
My mouse only has one button (Macintosh!) What then? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-download-an-image-to-disk-on-firefox/379655/4 "2006-11-09T03:45:14Z")
Hold the control key down, then click. I think. It’s been a while. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-download-an-image-to-disk-on-firefox/379655/5 "2006-11-09T06:58:23Z")
[QUOTE=DaveRaver] …holding your mouse down on an image for a few seconds and selecting “download an image to disk”… [/QUOTE] You want this extension [Image Toolbar](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/243/). CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-download-an-image-to-disk-on-firefox/379655/6 "2006-11-09T07:06:31Z")
[QUOTE=DaveRaver] My mouse only has one button (Macintosh!) What then? [/QUOTE] Buy another mouse? ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-download-an-image-to-disk-on-firefox/379655/7 "2006-11-09T07:24:03Z")
[QUOTE=DaveRaver] My mouse only has one button (Macintosh!) What then? [/QUOTE] Control + click is the equivalent of right-click on the Mac, assuming it was made in the last 7-8 years, anyway. If you’ve got Mac OS X, however, I’d follow the advice to get a new mouse. Any Multi-Button USB mouse will work on the Macintosh, and more and more applications are starting to assume you’ve got that second button. Even Apple ships their machines with 2-button mice now (although the “Mighty Mouse” is really more of a 1.5 button mouse – use one for a bit before you buy if that’s what you’re looking at. Some folks love it, but I don’t lift my left finger when I right-click, which makes the Mighty Mouse useless to me – it’s really only got one button, and it senses which side your finger is on. If it’s “both,” the mouse treats it as a left click.)