kvetch

The Dowbrigade is going crazy ,again. Doncha just
hate it when, unexpectedly, one of your main work tools alters its
behavior,
loses
abilities,
or makes
you
change the way you do things due to "updates" or changed preferences?
One of the reasons it bothers us so much is because we lack the patience
or technical acumen to figure out what changed, or how.

Yes, there was a specific point that prompted this whine.
Since we upgrades to OSX three years ago, our main browser has been Safari,
which we have grown comfortable and accustomed to using daily, although
the machine in our office is running Firefox in an attempt to diversify
and feign hipness.

Anyway, one of the useful features we like about Safari
is that by right-clicking on an image, we get a drop down menu including
"Save image as…" which allows me to rename and place the image in the
folder we desire. It even remembers the last folder we stored something
in, so we can often complete the entire operation in two clicks.

But last week sometime, on our main desktop machine,
that hidden command somehow morphed into "Save image to desktop" which
unceremoniously drops a copy of the image on the desktop, under whatever
long and twisted name the distant designers have given it, from where
it takes upwards of half a dozen clicks to dig it out, rename it, and
stick it in our images folder.  Worse, after we have done this several
times, our desktop is so cluttered with image icons that we cannot tell
which one is the one we just downloaded, as the "Save to desktop" command
at no point allows you to see the name of the image you are saving!

As usual, we ended up questioning our own memory, sanity
and intelligence. But on our trusty iBook, Safari still allows us to
"Save image as…" and to select a name and a place for each one.  What
happened to the Safari on our desktop machine? We have searched the preference
panels in vain for an option to turn this valuable command back on.

We suspect the disappearance is due to the insidious
and silent "upgrades" mandated by Apple’s Automatic Updater. The only
other logical explanation is that we somehow inadvertently changed a
preference setting that we now cannot find in order to change it back.  It
wouldn’t be the first time.

This is really bothering us, as we use graphic images
in almost every posting and we have been wasting time and getting frustrated
poking around our desktop looking for the pictures we just saved, trying
to guess what tr_8843.pic.small90738882.jpg depicts without having to
open it up.

Is anyone out there familiar with Safari?  Anyone
else noticed this change? It the loss of "Save image as…" an "upgrade"
or a "downgrade"? Is there any alternative to doing all our blogging
on the laptop or moving permanently to Firefox (which has other problems
related to blogging in html)? Save us before we drown in desktop debris!