On "save image as...", Firefox requests a download location

OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Browser: Firefox 4.0.1
I recently did a clean install of Windows and all related programs, Firefox included. I now find that, no matter what, Firefox always asks me where to save my file when I right click an image and select "Save image as..." Because my job often requires me to pick and choose several images from a given site at a time, this is a big hassle and add a lot of extra time and clicking.
I would love to know how to make it stop asking me to choose a location every single time I download a simple image. It is infuriatingly frustrating.
This behavior is consistent whether I have chosen a default download directory in the options or if I have instructed it to "always ask" me. Changing this option does not change the behavior.
Incidentally, the extension DownloadSort seems to be broken now, as well, which is odd because I was running Firefox 4 prior to my reformat and it was working as intended. Disabling or enabling this extension has no effect on the issue. Similarly, I installed Automatic Save Folder in a desperate attempt to fix the problem, but it appears to be inactive as well.

Regarding the file saving inconsistencies, great point! I'd recommend [http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/feedback submitting some feedback] or [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ filing a bug report]...I may even file a bug myself if I get some time. Ideally, you want to be able to right-click on any image on the page and have it saved to the specified default download directory without a prompt, correct?
I also tried to reproduce the Firefox experience with ''Save Image As'' you described before previously with different Firefox versions, but was unsuccessful as well...I'm assuming the DownloadSort add-on was adding that nifty feature.
Could you point me to a page/site where Google Chrome behaves differently from Firefox in regards to ''Save Image As...''? From my experience, Google Chrome does the same thing as Firefox, but I may not be using the browsers in the same way. I suspect the developers prompt for a filename/location because often websites give very long and/or non-descriptive filenames for images, so they figure users probably want to rename the file...alas that's no help in this situation!
I feel like I'm now just throwing a bunch of add-ons at you in the hopes that one might stick (I'm not, honest!), but I also stumbled across another [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-picker/ add-on called Image Picker] that I think may find useful. After the add-on is installed, it will add a ''Pick Images'' option in your context menu (right-click on a page with images), then selecting ''Pick Images'' will bring up a small window with all images on the page from which you can select in the menu and save to a folder.
In any case, no pressure to mark your question as solved! :)
P.S. If you must change browsers, at least give [http://www.opera.com/ Opera] a go if you haven't already. ;-)

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