121029 - Implement 'proper pre-downloading' mechanism

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22796

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Sebastian Späth]

This feature has been resolved as WONTFIX in bug 22796 (see discussion there).
It was argued that a precondition for this feature to be sensible was a default
download feature (bug 121027) which I will mark as a blocker of this one.

If we have a default download directory and we click on a not recognized binary
link, we should pre-download:

1) If the according MIME type has already been configured as "always save to
disk" or
2) as soon as the users presses "save to disk" in the dialog which prompts the
user how mozilla should open/save the file but before the location dialog pops
up (if we still need a file location dialog with a default save directoy).

Comment 1

[Peter Lairo]

I'm an eternal optimist :)

Comment 2

[neeti]

file handling

Comment 3

[Bill Law]

->mscott

Scott, if we can translate all this to something specific, and I need to help 
out, let me know.

Comment 4

[Sebastian Späth]

Just to note, that I (the reporter) changed my mind on this one. (I don't
consider it worthwile anymore) If mscott wants to close this bug WONTFIX, I am
perfectly happy with it.