1042726 - There appears to be no way to save a page. In this case, a text file.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 924751

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[nemo]

There is an export to pdf option, but, couldn't find an option to download the file, anywhere.

I was told the icon that looks like 4 boxes surrounded by a dotted line was select all which I could use to copy text and send to file, which might have worked and even preserved the formatting (despite this file being a megabyte and 15,000 lines), but when I used it, it only selected the first line of the document (which was not, curiously, my selection).

I found an addon to save a link, which will probably be helpful most of the time, but this .txt is unlinked, so I'd have to paste a link to it somewhere just to get a save option in the addon, which seems a wee bit convoluted.

Putting a save option just above the export to PDF would be ideal, for me.

Comment 1

[:Margaret Leibovic]

This seems like a great add-on idea. I would help mentor someone to make an add-on for this.

Comment 3

[nemo]

Hm. You don't think this makes sense in main UI?
'cause seriously, behaviour seems a bit odd.
For mp3, ogg, video I can save the file by long touching on the content.
But for txt, html, jpeg, png there's no such option.

And, saving a jpeg or png as a pdf just seems silly.  Frankly, if you're worried about menu clutter, I'd settle for swapping the "save as pdf" for "save" for file types where making a PDF seems a bit odd (that is, text, jpeg, png).

And Aaron, I kinda disagree sorta with the duplicate status, unless the one you duped against was expanded from "Web page" to "anything".

'cause actually, saving a web page as a PDF sounds fine to me, and a nice solution for the big set of resources that a complete web page entails.

The things mentioned above (images, text) are single files.

Comment 4

[:Margaret Leibovic]

(In reply to nemo from comment #3)
> Hm. You don't think this makes sense in main UI?
> 'cause seriously, behaviour seems a bit odd.
> For mp3, ogg, video I can save the file by long touching on the content.
> But for txt, html, jpeg, png there's no such option.

We can definitely consider this for a feature in the main UI, but an add-on would be a faster and easier solution, even if it's only temporary. And users would have access to that add-on more more quickly than we could build and ship a feature in the browser.

> And, saving a jpeg or png as a pdf just seems silly.  Frankly, if you're
> worried about menu clutter, I'd settle for swapping the "save as pdf" for
> "save" for file types where making a PDF seems a bit odd (that is, text,
> jpeg, png).
> 
> And Aaron, I kinda disagree sorta with the duplicate status, unless the one
> you duped against was expanded from "Web page" to "anything".
> 
> 'cause actually, saving a web page as a PDF sounds fine to me, and a nice
> solution for the big set of resources that a complete web page entails.
> 
> The things mentioned above (images, text) are single files.

I think the dupe makes sense. Basically you just want a way to download the contents at a given URL, and that could be anything, as you say.