There are probably a few different ways out there. Here's link to another add-on method that allows for drag and dropping of images directly from a Firefox web

There are probably a few different ways out there. Here's link to another add-on method that allows for drag and dropping of images directly from a Firefox web page into Org, code handles async downloading of image to local directory: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/77708 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/77708 EDIT: the above-linked thread is actually about the beginnings of the 'org-download' extension, now found here: https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download