Today I was going to save some images on twitter and itonly showed me broken images, I was using the "Twitter View Original Images" extension so I deactivated it and now it's showing fine...

Is there an alternative for it or for now I am going to need to append ":orig" after opening any image or use an external tool?

notknow said:
Today I was going to save some images on twitter and itonly showed me broken images, I was using the "Twitter View Original Images" extension so I deactivated it and now it's showing fine...

Is there an alternative for it or for now I am going to need to append ":orig" after opening any image or use an external tool?

yup its better to just open the image and type ":orig" if you want the original
you can use twitter media downloader and set to always open the image as original
it used to work on videos but for some reason it doesn't anymore so only images work

if you want to download video medias from twitter or for other websites i recommend using yt-dlp as you can download quite almost literally anything

You might also be able to try JDownloader.

Idem's Sourcing Suite still works, but it does a lot more than just the Twitter stuff.

lilyanida said:
you can use twitter media downloader and set to always open the image as original

For me it's not even working with images lol, damn you musk.

notknow said:
For me it's not even working with images lol, damn you musk.

it's better to search for a userscript to download your images,gifs(which no matter what is still a mp4) and videos

notknow said:
Today I was going to save some images on twitter and itonly showed me broken images, I was using the "Twitter View Original Images" extension so I deactivated it and now it's showing fine...

Is there an alternative for it or for now I am going to need to append ":orig" after opening any image or use an external tool?

I have been using Twitter View Original Images daily for the past couple years and have not run into this sort of problem (yet).
The only thing I ran into recently is that sometimes it would open a .webp link (rather than the usual .jpg or .png) when opening images in a new tab, but that problem has recently been patched.

Perhaps you have an outdated extension?

I've been use a tool that modifies headers to remove the "Accept: HTML" part on Reddit for exactly this reason. Referrer is not being used to determine if you clicked on a link, or opened their HTML link, anymore.
Removing the accept options entirely makes it at least return the JPEG/WEBP/GIF/PNG/whatever instead of a nasty preview page. They explain it here in one tool's help page.
I wonder if there's a way to do that with something like uMatrix...

I'm still trying to figure out where it's grabbing the links to images, with widths, since it apparently generates a different key for each resolution, just to be extra fucky.

Any such information could lead to improvements in any 'original images' extensions.