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How to open & download photos from Yahoo email on MacBook Air using firefox?
On my new MacBook Air with Lion software, I'm using Yahoo Mail. When I get photos in attachments, I click to download & a download list shows, then it takes a few seconds before a full page sized photo opens. When it is opened, the toolbar and doc go away. There's no way to save the large sized photo. If I copy and save the thumbnail photo in the email, that's as big as it gets if I send it to someone else in an email. It stays in thumbnail size.
Once or twice when I opened an email attached photo, it opened immediately in a nice size right over the email page. I don't know why it worked differently those few times, but I liked it better. I don't get choices when the photo opens other than 'default' and 'other.' The word, other, does nothing.
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
Thanks for all the details. In fact, none of that matters. YahooMail works the same on all systems. The only difference is that Firefox offers more choices than Safari for download action.
{BTW, all NEW Macs come with "Mountain Lion" (OS 10.8), not Lion (OS 10.7). If yours has Lion, call Apple and ask about the "Up-to-Date" offer for Mountain Lion.}
Any attachment in Yahoo email appears as an icon in the body of the email. Click it and wait a couple seconds for the built-in Norton Anti-virus to scan. Then it allows download. Nothing to it.
All your downloads are there. You just don't know it. Look in the Downloads folder of your user folder. Bingo!!!!
"When it is opened, the toolbar and doc go away."
That's because you set Preview to be full-screen. When Preview opens, click the double-arrow icon at the top right.
"it opened immediately in a nice size right over the email page."
Do you mean "over" or "in"???? If you set your YahooMail preferences to show HTML (a security risk), it can show embedded photos right in the page. This is not the same as an attachment. It is an object included in the message, so it allows you to see it in the page. You can also download it. If you love the embedded photo idea, you will have to convince all your friends to turn on that feature of their email client so they all send photos embedded. You have no control over the embedding process, only for the option to see embedded photos in the body or not.
As for Firefox either opening an attached item immediately or asking you to choose what to do, that is a preference setting of Firefox. You choose either to download a file to the default location, or to ask each time what to do. Probably you change the preference setting and didn't realize what it would do.
If you need even more details about how Yahoo Mail works, put your question in that category instead of "Computers & Internet > Software".
