Double-click Image Downloader by Marnes

4.4 Stars out of 5

Review by Alice

Spectacular addon like no other. A must for someone like me. I noticed another review asking why saved images sometimes don't have an extension, which was my very question. I read your reply, and it didn't indicate to me whether or not it would be possible for the addon to default an extension in the settings or something, like automatically assign an extension of your or the user's choice to any picture. So, is that possible? Also, could you link to this addons.mozilla.org page in the description so it's easier to rate, and/or provide contact information? Thanks.

Developer response

posted 5 years ago

I'm glad you like it, thanks for the message. "automatically assign an extension of your or the user's choice to any picture" this is possible, but it would be incorrect and bad behavior. Blindly defaulting to adding .jpg for example to any unknown image, means e.g. a png image could get the jpg extension. Nowadays this should cause no issues, but I consider it an anti-feature because it's simply wrong, so I will not implement it, sorry. Browsers have tricks to determine an extension and will do so whenever possible. If one cannot be determined by the browser, addons are not in a better position to try it. As for the AMO link, I'm surprised firefox doesn't provide that link by itself... So I guess, I might add AMO links to the descriptions next time I work on the text.