Flickr has a really annoying protection against downloading pictures from their site using the right click menu of your browser. They streched a 1×1 transparent gif image over the images, so if you right click on the picture and click save image, you’re actually saving that transparent overlay image: spaceball.gif

So, How to get rid of this silly protection method? If you’re using Firefox, just open your userContent.css file in your Mozilla chrome directory (windows: c:Documents and Settings$USERApplication DataMozillaFirefoxProfiles$profile_namechrome) and add this line (create the file if it doesn’t exist yet):

img[src*=”spaceball.gif”] {display: none !important;}

and the “protection” is gone

Posted: 09|30|07 at 8:01 am. Filed under: Internet, Software.
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