Thu 9 Oct 2008
Chrome Save Image As Problem
Posted by Bashar under Browsers, Google, Technology

If you’ve been using Google Chrome recently, and for Windows users I don’t see a reason why you shouldn’t minimally at least, you may have noticed the problem when you try to save an image with a different than current image name. Problem is, if you rename the image to say “Mars” and click save, it will get saved as the image name, concatenated to the file extension without the dot separator, e.g. “Marsjpg”, which ofcourse would forbid you from automatic Image opening with default Image Browser.

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Now this is a known bug that’s been reported since Sept 4th, and it’s still marked as Uncofirmed. I’m not sure why such a simple obvious bug is taking so long. Perhaps Google was depending too much on open source developers help, not sure. But 1 month is long enough to confirm an obvious issue. Those delays would make people lose faith in Chrome, and stop taking time reporting future problems.
Since the bug seems to take long to fix, the quick and simple work around for you and me is to write the full image name with extension, “Mars.jpg”

I can just imagine the developer working late at night to finish the Save Image As feature, and he goes something like return file_name && file_extension, forgetting the dot separator. Perhaps a refreshing Pepsi would do. Works for me :).
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October 9th, 2008 at 9:30 am
first let me say, I love how images are saved and displayed in the bottom of Chrome. How they slide and I get to open the folder :) nice
another thing when “saving as” if I accept the default naming, it will include the dot, once I try to “save images as” and type in the name I want then no dot appears! and the problem you mentioned happens!
But I really don’t mind the work around you mentioned until they get this problem fixed
October 9th, 2008 at 9:42 am
maryam: I agree on your first point. The work around is not so much trouble really, but I wonder why it takes them long time to fix, or at least confirm it.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
i havnt used chrome yet .. waiting for a better release :p
the first version will always contain such bugs, its normal
October 9th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
It’s extremely relieving to find out that this is a known bug. Paranoid as I am, I re-installed Chrome twice over.
Thanks a lot!
October 9th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
I just have a small query: Does the default file name include the extension for anybody?
Thanks.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:52 am
nemo: Yeah, but I still advise you to see what the buzz is all about. This is one Beta software that is default browser for many.
SK: Welcome. For me, if I don’t change image file name, it saves with proper extension and dot separator. Doesn’t it for you?
October 10th, 2008 at 10:58 am
It saves alright for me if I don’t change the file name. But what I mean is, when you’re saving an image called, say, “picture”, then by default in the Save As field, does it show up as “picture.jpg” or just “picture”?
It shows just “picture” for me, without the .jpg extension but it still saves as a JPEG file and it opens correctly as long as I don’t change the name.
October 11th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
yes i installed it akeed when it was released and used it for like 2 days but there are still many things that they need to look at :)
October 12th, 2008 at 10:03 am
SK: Sorry I misunderstood you. Yes, it shows for me as “Picture” as well, but since extension is set to jpg, it sets it by default if you don’t change the name.
nemo: I would like to see what you have in mind. Perhaps a post about it would be of interest :)
October 12th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Shokran!
(I hope that’s right; I’m from India.)
October 12th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
SK: Couldn’t be said better :)
November 1st, 2008 at 9:00 pm
grrr- this sucks
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:00 am
Amanda: Gotta live with it :(
November 27th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
it didnt happen before to me, but now since ive formatted my computer, and reinstalled everything, this bug is bothering me :@
what a pain in the arse !
November 28th, 2008 at 8:46 am
PanjabiPaki: I think u had older version of Chrome then? Otherwise how come?
December 4th, 2008 at 3:45 am
I have the same problem but it now messes up Chrome and Firefox SAVE IMAGE AS.
I get mail.google.com.htm as a CHROME.HTML
and to save a file I get the options of HTML only or web page.If I guess and save image file as a .jpg and it is a jpg, I can save it. The save images works with IE, but not with Firefox. It continues to work with Chrome. I ran a registry cleaner on my system and it didn’t help. I also went in and changed image file associations to be matched with Firefox and still no go.
I’m going to try a clean reinstall of Firefox and hope that works.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Muddauber: Firefox also? Haven’t heard such complain before. Perhaps clean re-install would help, not a bad idea.
December 4th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Yes, that did it. I went ahead and uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox and it did the trick. I am using a lot of plugins with Firefox, so it may be a result of that kind of integration.
It happened after I made Chrome my default browser.
There are still some things in Firefox that I can not live without. i.e - web developer, timestamp, delicious bookmarks, etc.
December 4th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
It is interesting to note that the Agent String is :
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.X.Y.Z Safari/525.13.
So it is considered a “Mozilla” browser
December 5th, 2008 at 6:52 am
muddaube: I totally agree about the Plugins, like Web Developer. I have Chrome installed however I don’t get your Save As problem with Firefox. And yes, the Agent is
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.4.154.29 Safari/525.19
I guess it’s kinda easy to guess looking at functionality of it.
Thanks for the tip and tests :)