Stupid problem with IE 5.5 and saving pictures...

[Rags]

.

[Pace]

Alternatively, try this thread

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=88921

One or two pictures in there

Yummy, Paul.

[GT98]

Stupid problem with IE 5.5 and saving pictures...

Well when ever I try to save a picture off a web site with WinME, 95% of the time it wants to save it as a BMP file, even though on the web site its a Jpeg file. I try to select jpeg on the drop down arrow but my only option is .bmp format. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Scott


------------------
Abit BH6 rev 1.0 Celeron 2-566@877mhz,256mb RAM,ATI Radeon AIW,SB Live! with Klipsch Promedia v2-400, Optiquest V95 19in montor, Asus 40x CD-ROM, Aopen 5x DVD-ROM,HP9110i 8x4x32 CD-RW,SupraMax 56k modem,WinME on Western Digital 30GB drive

[nehalmistry]

quick suggestion, use a picture editor such as 'microsoft photo editor' and then convert it

ps, ie5.5 sux... its unstable, ie5.01 is better

------------------
P5A-B MoBo w/AMD K6-266@300 (100mhz FSB)
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP (oh, lets party)
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg 100mhz SDRam
Ali V agp chipset (2x)
30 gig HD 7200 RPM UDMA 66
6.4 gig HD 5400 RPM UDMA 66
ALI 1543 IDE Controller (ATA 33)
Optiquest Q53 15" Monitor
Actima 36X CD-Rom
Windows 95B
ICQ UIN: 24730025

[Gurm]

That's an issue with IE and certain web sites (Egroups is notorious for this).

Solution... back up and right click the link and pick "save as".

Now the problem with THAT is that there is a massive memory leak in all IE versions below IE6 beta (which has its own special problems) such that if you spend a half hour right clicking and picking "save as" you will hose your machine.

So you're screwed. Solution? Use IE6 beta or Mozilla. *shrug*

- Gurm

------------------
Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Paulr]

As this error only occurs on certain web sites it can only really be one of two things at fault.

1. IE 5.5 is not correctly reading certain HTML tags.
This seems unlikely as suprise, suprise IE is one of the more HTML complient web browsers.
2. Bad coding by the web sites in question.
3. Yes I know I only said one of two, but I guess it could be a combination of them both.

IE5.5 SP1 is very stable.
It also doesn't contain any major memory leaks that I know of.
I rolled out IE5.5 to all 100 workstations here and I've had no reports of slow-down etc.
IE 5 beta was a nightmare, that's why I wont put IE6 beta on any machine I care about.

[Gurm]

You want to see IE's memory leak?

Fire up a site filled with pictures.

Spend about a half hour right-clicking and picking "save as".

Now fire up task manager and see how much memory IE is taking up. A lot, right? But it's not even BEGINNING to list how much it's really taking up.

Fire up Norton or some other program that lets you see how much of your system resources are available, and lo and behold they're almost gone.

100% reproducable, just spend an hour browsing egroups or Yahoo clubs for pictures.

- Gurm

------------------
Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Pace]

btw, can you drag and drop images (i.e. from IE onto Desktop or into a folder)?

Paul.

[Nick L]

Pace,

my right-click options (in ie5.5 on an image)are:
save picture as...
set as wallpaper
set as desktop item
(ive yet to see my pc crash)

[Pace]

Yes, but can you drag it using the left mouse button, onto the desktop, let the button go and then do you have it on the desktop (as an icon)?

Paul.