Firefox image saving issues?

[Rebel]

Any Firefox users having similar problems with saving images from the site?  I'm using Firefox 31.3.0 and when I save an image file (.jpg) it becomes unreadable to multiple jpg/jpeg viewing software programs (I've tried, MS Photoviewer, MS Paint, Photoshop, etc. and they all provide different error messages but essentially say the file is not in the right format).

I searched yesterday and lots of people are reporting the problem and offering solutions but I haven't found one that has actually worked yet.  I can perform the same file save operation with IE and have no problems.  One forum post yesterday I found noted that most users were having problems with files hosted at photo sharing websites and I noticed that most of the images I was trying to save from here were from photobucket.

I didn't discover it until after I had saved a few images from reviewing progress reports and then went back to view them and they wouldn't open, so now I have to go back and relocate etc.  I just thought I would warn folks that it may be happening to them as well and I was wondering if others had had similar problems and found a solution?

Thanks,
Rebel

[Lightning101]

I have the same problem here with viperpits. If the picture are recent, no problem. But if not, I have to refresh 3 times (and save each time) if I want to save a picture from here.

[Nikolas_A]

This happens with images hosted on third party servers (photobucket etc). Are you right clicking->save image as? If yes, try left clicking, you'll be redirected to photobucket and then you can right clicking->save image as. You shouldn't have the same problem with images uploaded to VP.

Took me a while to figure out... 

[Rebel]

The more I troubleshoot this the more weird it gets.  I just picked a random image (first image in Lento's latest update page (pg. 21) titled foto_zps01bce829.jpg.

I right click and "Save Image As" to the desktop and it isn't viewable with any programs.
I left click the image which pops it out into the viewer pane and then right click and "Save Image As", still not viewable.
I open the image in a new tab (now shown as a photobucket page) and right click that, "Save Image As", still not viewable.
I use the built in "download" icon in the top right corner of the photobucket page, download it to the desktop, and voila, it works.

Just checked another one Reply #322 to Tulka's update (http://www.viperpits.org/smf/index.php?topic=4184.msg125752#msg125752) and 4 of the 6 files save correctly, 2 do not.  Talk about...

[Nikolas_A]

The more I troubleshoot this the more weird it gets.  I just picked a random image (first image in Lento's latest update page (pg. 21) titled foto_zps01bce829.jpg.

I right click and "Save Image As" to the desktop and it isn't viewable with any programs.
I left click the image which pops it out into the viewer pane and then right click and "Save Image As", still not viewable.
I open the image in a new tab (now shown as a photobucket page) and right click that, "Save Image As", still not viewable.

Strange, all three work for me...
But every time I had the problem you described, it was a pic on PB. Still, opening in a new tab and saving always worked 

[Rufus]

I've seen some instances of this with Seamonkey, which is Firefox compatible.  But being on a Mac I save images mostly by drag and drop to my Desktop from my browser, but if an image comes up in a pop-up viewer - like our new one - that doesn't work.  But I can get around that by cntrl+click (right click) and forcing the picture to open in a new Tab of it's own.  Then I can drag it out...but in some cases I still get a non-readable file.

For ones in places like Photobucket I just download them from the site using the site's Download button.

[sagrzmnky]

All of the images in my build thread from me are in Photobucket. I have never had any issues. Check in my thread and see how they work for you.

[Rufus]

All of the images in my build thread from me are in Photobucket. I have never had any issues. Check in my thread and see how they work for you.

They expand in the new viewer just fine, and I can drag and drop them from my browser as long as I don't expand them into the viewer first.  If I right click and open in a new tab, it takes me to the image on your Photobucket page, but I can't drag and drop it from there, and the Photobucket download button doesn't work for me...which I think is the first time that's happened - that generally works.

[Rebel]

Just tried the first image on page 1 of your build thread Grease...same results I got earlier.  It only saved correctly when I let photobucket download it using the built in download button.  I also did each option with IE and all of them worked correctly.  Maybe it'll work itself out with the next release of Firefox?

[sagrzmnky]

If you don't like using Internet Explorer, and I don't use it, try downloading Maxthon. This is the one I use. I have used Firefox in the past and I have stopped using it and went to Maxthon. Most hackers don't mess with it because it is not as popluar as IE and Firefox.
http://www.maxthon.com/