Means to load/reload an image via context menu

• Component: Images
• Status: NEW ---

[Nicholas Shanks]

When an image or other resource fails to load because of network congestion or other temporary problem, I expect to be able to right-click on the missing image once my network activity has died down, and load it in place. Instead all I seem to be able to do is download the missing image to disk.

Similarly this action could be used to refresh an image manually that changes over time, without having to refresh the whole page and re-download all other media/javascript. There should be two versions of this, one that tries to get it via a cache if available, and one that avoids any caches (e.g. when I update a resource on my webserver and want to see how it looks in the page).

This feature should be in WebKit so that it works everywhere.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Something like this could also be useful for selectively loading images when "Display images when the page opens" preference is off.

[Alexei Yudin]

Agreed. Such a useful feature. Probably, the only thing I miss after years of using Opera.
It's especially needed since I noticed that WebKit tends to not load images fully (when there are lots of them or in some other cases) while other browsers have no problem with that.