Of all the context menus in Firefox, my second most-clicked item (behind View Page Source) is View Background Image. This stock functionality is one of the many reason I still prefer to use Firefox over Safari, even though Safari’s rendering is notably faster. The problem I have with View Background Image though is that the image I want to view is often associated with a link element. When you right-click on a link though, this menu item is sadly missing.

The only alternative I’ve found, short of digging around in the page source and CSS, involves the Web Developer Toolbar. If you have this extension installed, you can click on Images » View Image Information to see a list of all background images that are associated with the page you are viewing. That usually does the trick, but it would be much more ideal if there were an extension that just makes View Background Image work on links. After all of my searching and discussions with friends and coworkers I’ve concluded that there is no extension out there that can make this happen. I’ve never made a Firefox extension before, but I have toyed around with Javascript/XUL and could probably figure it out if I get desperate enough. Before I attempt this though, I figured I’d ask, “What do you do when you want to see the background image of a link?”

I can hardly believe it has been 4 years since Ames and I got married and over 7 since we started dating. Looking back at where we’ve been and the things we’ve accomplished, it’s easy to see why the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts. Individually, we couldn’t be more different. She’s an engineer and a scientist. If things went her way, every decision would be carefully calculated and faultlessly efficient. On the other hand, I’m a spontaneous artist who loves to create asymmetrical balance and appreciates all things unpredictable. You’d think this combination would be a disaster, but instead we balance out our eccentricities and rely heavily on each others individual strengths.

I think this picture from Halloween 2004 provides an appropriate caricature of what I’m talking about:

I know, we’re both pretty nerdy, but after all this time, I’m still helplessly in love and hopelessly dependent on my wife. As much as I may take her for granted at times, she’s the reason I am who I am and my source of confidence.

To continue the recent tradition of posting early memories of our relationship on our anniversary, I thought I’d post a poem that I wrote to Ames when we first started dating:
(To be spoken in the tone and timber of Bob Ross for maximum effect.)