116374 - Direct saving file from browser

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Matevz Jekovec]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011211
BuildID:    20011211

If you have an URL to a file and you want to save that file (for eg. if you
don't want to view file in browser, but prefering to save it), what can you do?
Of course, you press shift+left mouse button on a hyperlink, but what if you
don't have any hyperlinks and raw URL only and you want to save it to disk.

IMO I prefer writing the URL into the address textbox and if you press enter,
MoZilla will view this file (if it's image or whatever) and if you'd press
shift+enter, MoZilla would ask you to save a file. Could this be implemented? (I
think it's *very* useful)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. You'd write your URL into address
2. Then you'd press shift+enter to save it

Comment 1

[Andrew Hagen]

Is it really that common that you would want to save a file but not view it?

Comment 2

[Matevz Jekovec]

Well, em... Is it really that hard when you type url and press enter, browser
would open it and when you press shift+enter, browser would open that dialog box
(Open with assigned application or save it to disk...)

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Confirming rfe.  ccing UI people to make some UI decisions

Comment 4

[Peter Trudelle]

This sounds like a very remote scenario.  I don't think it is worth adding at
all, certainly not in this release.  ->future

Comment 5

[Chris Nebergall ([e-mail])]

Its not as remote a senario as you might think.  Find a flash animation
displayed on a web page that you wish to keep.  It has its own context menu
specific to the plugin so there is no way to right click and choose save as.  If
you find the URL in view source and place it in the address bar, it will again
be given to the plugin to handle and you still will not have the option to save
it.  Short of looking through the cache and copying the file directly I can't
find a way of saving it.

If this option was implemented you could save any type of file INSTEAD of
handing it off to a plugin which may or may not give you a choice to save it
later. This is probably a problem with other file formats as well.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> it will again be given to the plugin to handle and you still will not have the 
> option to save

"Save Page As" under the File menu will do it.

Comment 7

[Peter Trudelle]

This still sounds like <<1% of users; we're trying to hit the sweet spot.

Comment 8

[Matevz Jekovec]

Yes, I'm thinking precicely like you Chris and have the same problems. IMO, the
best solution would be to press shift+enter, when you type in URL and that
dialog (open file with specified app. or save it to disk) would appear.
Coders, could it be done (or too many issues, especially because of the
different OSes)

Comment 9

[timeless]

what's wrong w/ saving from page info?

and afaik you can't trigger a full page plugin, so that wouldn't be a concern 
(although that might be a bug).

Comment 10

[Matevz Jekovec]

Saving from Page info? How? You can't load a page, you want to save it. Page
info works only when you already loaded a page...

Comment 11

[Peter Trudelle]

Mass moving all of my open Nav/toolkit bugs to new owner.

Comment 12

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 13

[:Hb]

(In reply to comment #5)
> ... Find a flash animation displayed on a web page that you wish to keep.
> ... Short of looking through the cache and copying the file directly I 
> can't find a way of saving it.

Page Info - Media lists all embedded files and has a Save As button now. WORKSFORME.

The task "Directly from URL to disk" is specific for download applications like GetRight.