The Ability to save Photos to your hard drive
spirit Wingtips
Please consider and implement the ability to save photos taken within second life's browser-based viewer to our hard drive the same way we do with the normal viewer.
That's it simple in a nutshell.
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ladiablesse100bc Resident
This might be 'simple' from a user standpoint, but from a systems standpoint it's a bit of a lift.
1) to save to your local storage, the 'shell' the viewer is running in needs permissions to put files in your local storage. In systems parlance, it needs to 'map' your drive to the VM that's running the viewer. That's just if you were using remote-access software (like SteamDeck or AnyDesk) to get to the machine running the viewer. Mapping local resources to remote processes is a HUGE security hole, so the entire reasoning behind it has to be carefully planned. What folder gets mapped? what are the limits to copying files there? does a security warning need to appear when you first connect, when you first try to save a photo, or every time you save? will scripts have access to this mapping? etc etc.
2) your browser has to be able to allow this, since you're running the remote session in a browser window. Typically browser tabs are considered 'sandboxes' that get very limited local resources. They can't 'see' your drives outside of their own cache, unless you set up some kind of extension to let them see outside it. That's again a big security hole, because an extension to map drives to a browser window means that other things you view in that window could theoretically use it, not just the viewer.
So this is a bit of a thorny hedge, mainly to keep the user and their device (tablet, computer, VM, shared system at the library) safe.