Right-click an image
Open Chrome’s normal image context menu on the picture you want.
A focused Chrome extension
Download the image you actually wanted.
Save the source. Skip the WebP or AVIF when available.
Try it here: Install the extension, right-click the image, then choose
Save source image.
How it works
One command. No conversion step.
The extension inspects an image only when you choose its context-menu command.
Choose Save source image
The extension temporarily checks the clicked image’s declared src.
Save the declared source
Chrome downloads the selected URL, and the extension suggests a clean filename based on the response.
Behind the right-click
See why Chrome can save a different file.
The same image can declare a fallback src and responsive WebP or AVIF candidates.
Built to stay focused
The extension does one job. Only when you ask.
- No image conversion or re-encoding
- No permanent access to every website
- No developer-operated backend
- No accounts, advertising, or analytics
- No extension-managed browsing history
- No remotely hosted executable code
What “source” means
Save Source Image prefers the literal URL in the clicked image’s img src when it is usable. It cannot recover a format the page does not expose. If that URL itself serves WebP or AVIF, or only an optimized candidate is available, Chrome may still save that format.
Understand the limit
Helpful guides, without the hype.
Learn why a browser may save WebP or AVIF, and what a page’s image source declarations actually mean.
Why Chrome saves WebP or AVIF
Responsive-image markup can let a browser select a format or size different from an image’s literal src.
img src, srcset, and currentSrc
A practical explanation of the image URLs a webpage can declare and the one Chrome can render.
Save the exposed source
Save Source Image can help only when the page exposes a usable source URL. It does not create formats that are not available.