Saving eBay coin photos (new way)

Yes I see that specific listing doesn't work in Safari or Chrome for Mac, but works as usual in Firefox for Mac.

 

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Interesting ... Too bad FireFox doesn't behave that way everywhere - I'm surprised that it differs by OS.

 

Hi Ben,
I have the same problem but under windows 10 and firefox. Tested on the browser of ccleaner where it works fine. Similar to firefox, but with better privacy. Also works under Linux.

sky92880

 

Thanks, Sky - good to know!

I've also just discovered a rather bizarre workaround for Chrome on Linux (a bug, perhaps?) - I'd be curious if this also works for Chrome on other operating systems too.

1) Open this eBay item in Chrome

https://www.ebay.com/itm/125081018509

The coin image should be large and clicking on it does nothing (mouse cursor is arrow).

This is the normal SNAFU page state.

2) Right click on the image, select "Inspect", then immediately click on the "x" in top right corner of the inspect window to close it again!

Some magic has just happened ...

3) Click on the circular-arrow page-refresh button at browser top left

The page refreshes, but now looks different! Coin image is small and now clickable! (mouse cursor is hand). Clicking on coin brings up full-screen image where "Save Image as ..." now works.

Now close the full screen image by clicking "x".

4) Refresh page again, as above

The page refreshes, but has now gone back to how it started off with the large non-clickable coin image! The magic has been undone!

If you want to get back to the small clickable image then repeat steps 2) and 3).

Here's how the page looks before and after the "magic".

Weird, eh ?!

 

Now, for me in Chrome, clicking on the image does bring it up in a window where "Save image as" works. I don't know how anything could have changed in the meantime, but now that link does allow the image to be saved as normal.

 

I could swear it had worked for me the other day in Chrome too, but then today not, which is why I started experimenting and discovered this weird behavior!

 

Tested once on disk images, taken from my c: drive as backup, with only the operating system and firefox, taken 6 months ago. Then you could effectively save it by right-clicking on the photo. Noticed that you now have to left click and then right-click and then the message 'save image as' appears. Maybe that will help?

 

It'll work differently when using browser to explore files:// disk images ... These varied results discussed are a result of how these browsers are interpreting the HTML of the web page, and how they are modifying it internally.

What happens when you load a web page is that the page source is loaded into an internal data structure (the "document object model" - DOM), which then may be modified when mouse clicks/etc cause bits of JavaScript code in the web page to be run.

If you look at "page source" you see the original (never varying) source for the page, but if you use "inspect" you are looking at current state of this internal data structure.

It'd be nice if the various browsers would be more consistent, or even same browser on different operating systems consistent(!), but at least with this inspect method there's a way of saving clean images when there's no alternative.