Maybe it’s something in UI, but many times I watch pictures (not even videos, they are their own can of worms), and want to save them, it shows me that I’m downloading them again although they are cached in whatever app I see them from.

Like this link with a happy dog: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/71/1e/52/711e52f1d6c7ead78f4380214f68c259.jpg

I see it in high rez in my browser, I can zoom in, and I can’t tell any difference from a copy that I can download, but it’s still, well, another download if I want to save it, and not a move from cache to my download folder, another request to the server, another waste of traffic.

Is there some rule of sandboxing for everything you load that I don’t know about? In cases like our fediverse, I wouldn’t like to cause double load when I already have the picture I want. Can I cut it down with some plugin in mobile Firefox?

I feel like I’m missing something big time.

  • BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    15 hours ago

    I notice this with pdfs. I view a pdf in browser and then when I want to download it the damn thing has to come down again.

    For what it’s worth, I recently swapped to Linux and discovered this doesn’t seem to happen there.

    • miss phant
      3·
      14 hours ago

      Yeah I can’t remember this behaviour either with Firefox on Linux. In fact when I save a half-loaded image to disk it will literally save just half the image.