It’s like saying that a komodo dragon is a dragon when the fact is that it’s just a lizard and not a dragon. Just because ‘firefox’ is another name for the red panda doesn’t mean that Mozilla’s Firefox is a red panda. The logo was influenced by a painting of the scene found in the storybook. The cornfields were burnt, and Samson was avenged.

In the story about Samson, Samson had revenge against the Philistines who remarried his wife, by tying pairs of foxes together with flaming ropes and letting them go in the cornfields of the Philistines. The icon was inspired by a bible story picture book. But that's annoying, so I liked 'View Image'+DownThemAll.To be honest, the Mozilla Firefox animal is officially a fox (Based on the red fox, or Vulpes Vulpes, to be exact). In that case you can open the download manager and press retry, where it WILL be successful. You might think cutting out the middle man and using 'Save Image As' would make this moot, but Firefox has had a very longstanding bug for me (on multiple machines/OS's) where it simply says the download 'Failed' using this option. I never said it was of life-or-death importance but it degrades usability for me. Yes, I can just close the tabs, but that's more effort than deleting extra junk in my file manager. Why 'Open Image in a New Tab' is inferior for me is because it leaves those original tabs full of undesired images open. So I tend to open a lot of pages, use 'View Image' to focus on the intended target, and then download all to avoid netting a lot of junk files. I do a lot of mass downloading of images using the the DownThemAll extension, which is great but tends to download a lot of unintended images (icons, avatars, etc.) when used on a webpage. I'll reproduce my problem with it from an earlier post. Maybe for laptop users with a two-point touchpad. As you say middle-click would give the new tab functionality without loss of option so I'm not sure what the motivation was.

Image of mozilla firefox logo