Quick way to download Flickr images
Nov 20, 2009 Web Development
So I was browsing around on Flickr.com and found some images I wanted to save to my computer. The problem is that when you right click on an image you get a file called spaceball.gif which “covers” up the image from right click to save the image file. To get around this you will need the following:
- Firefox
- Adblock Plus
Once you have installed the Adblock Plus extension into Firefox follow the steps below:
- Navigate to Flickr page that you want to save the image.
- Right click the image you want to save and select Save Image As. If the filename is called spaceball.gif cancel the download
- Right click on the image and select Adblock Plus: Block Image
- Select the very first option under the Look for pattern which will more than likely be: |http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif and click Add Filter
- Refresh page and try saving picture again
Enjoy saving images from Flickr when there is no option to download larger files.
Tags: Extensions, Firefox, Flickr, Images
