Image URLs appear incorrect
Running Firefox on Ubuntu Linux. With my cursor over an image on a WEB site, right click, select "Email image..." option, the image URL appears incorrect.
I'll get something that looks like this:
http%3A%2F%2Fi1.nyt.com%2Fimages%2F2014%2F06%2F18%2Fworld%2F18assets%2F18assets-largeHorizontal375-v3.jpg&subject
However, same image, same WEB site, select "Copy Image Location" (instead of "Email Image..."), and I get this (which is correct):
http://i1.nyt.com/images/2014/06/18/world/18assets/18assets-largeHorizontal375-v3.jpg
Latest Firefox installed. All updates completed on Ubuntu.
Appreciate any insight here.
Note same platform, using Chrome, I never see mangled image URLs, but Chrome does not offer the option to "Email image...".
Thanks Jim
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mauroj, Looks like you may need to update your Firefox. If you right click on the image, the option "Email image..." should be there and it opens a default app.
If you change this preference in Options/Preferences > Applications and you scroll down to the "mailto" option you can change the action. What action was selected? This may change the url that you are seeing a difference in.
Hello. Thank you for your response.
The mailto option is set correctly, and it works as expected, meaning when "Email image..." is selected, it moves me to a compose window in Yahoo! Mail. That's not the problem.
The problem is the URL for the image.
Note I did a complete update - including Firefox. I also de-installed Firefox, cleared $HOME/.mozilla and re-installed Firefox. No joy.
Thank you again for your time and consideration. Jim
When you use Email Link or Email Image, Firefox sends a URL-encoded string to your mail website. Some mail clients and webmail sites decode that back into a clickable link but others just leave it "as is" which gives the result you're seeing. In my little test:
- Thunderbird: decoded
- Gmail: decoded
- Outlook (Live Mail): decoded
- Yahoo: not decoded
Perhaps someone should contact Yahoo and ask them to do a better job to keep up with the competition. But until then, I think copying/pasting the URL is the only practical workaround.
Thank you so much for your time.
With Yahoo! Mail configued as the mailto app, selecting "Email image..." on the Firefox logo on the Mozilla site, this is what gets dropped into the compose window in Yahoo! Mail:
https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.cdn.mozilla.net%2Fstatic%2Fimg%2Fblank.png&subject
Changing my mailto app to Gmail, this is what gets dropped into a compose window:
https://support.cdn.mozilla.net/static/img/blank.png
So it does indeed seem to be a Yahoo! Mail issue, not a Firefox issue, as a different email client changes things.
What's very odd is that this used to work with Yahoo! Mail several weeks ago. I wonder if Yahoo changed something on thier end.
Thanks Jim