Saturday Morning 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.

Any Mac users out there? Anyone familiar with Safari? Are
we finally going crazy? Has anyone else noticed this change? It the
loss of "Save image as…" an "upgrade" or a "downgrade"?
If it is an upgrade, is there any way to downgrade it back the way
it used to be?

On a related note, if any readers have installed the
new RSS Safari for Tiger, does it have "Save image as…" or "Save
image to desktop"?

Unfortunately it bothers us enough that if we can’t
get "Same image as…" back, we will be doing all our blogging
on the laptop or moving permanently to Firefox (which has other problems
related to blogging in html as we do) May the Software Gods save us
before we drown in desktop debris!

Followup: Sam Kass set us straight and solved the problem – see comment below!