# Mozilla: Saving Web Images

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-saving-web-images/98344>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 14, 2002, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-saving-web-images/98344 "2002-03-14T21:21:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-saving-web-images/98344/1 "2002-03-14T21:21:19Z")

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    - How the F\*$& do you do this in Mozilla? In IE, you right click on the image, and one of the menu choices is “save picture as”. I can’t find any similar function in Mozilla (5), and saving it as anything else results in some mysterious, unopenable non-standard file. - DougC

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**Author:** ![MinkMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minkman/32/19170_2.png) [@MinkMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MinkMan)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-saving-web-images/98344/2 "2002-03-14T22:19:13Z")

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What version of mozilla are you running. In at least the latest (0.9.9) when I right click on a image I have an option to “Save Image (imagename.gif)”

Maybe you should try downloading a new version. 0.9.9 is great and has tabbed browsing and a built-in option to prevent pop-up’s

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**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-saving-web-images/98344/3 "2002-03-14T23:47:25Z")

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    - Okay, more specifically: on normal images (such as the “THE STRAIGHT DOPE” banner at top), an option to “save image” is present, but not when trying to save images of maps on MapQuest (-and this is the problem; this is why I noticed…). -I don’t use the MapQUest “print map” feature, because it sucks. It prints a bunch of other crap I don’t want along with the map, and even then doesn’t print the map the way I want it. I just import the saved map images into a graphics editor and then I can reduce or enlarge the map, or print several progressively more detailed maps on one page.

- IE has no problem with saving the maps, but Mozilla 5 just saves a blank frame with a src to the asp… somebody try it Mozilla 6 and let me know what happens. It will be a few days before I can download the newer version anyway. - DougC

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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-saving-web-images/98344/4 "2002-03-15T01:00:43Z")

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Mozilla 0.9.9 seems to work fine using the normal right click – it saves the map image as mqmapgend.gif, and I can then bring the map gif directly into Lview without any trouble.