1296931 - Feature request : please add a about:config option for enabling a save as file browsing dialog.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[ytrezq]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko Presto/2.12.378 Opera/12.50
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

Try to save an mp4 file that is without the correct content‑type header. This is the wanted behaviour since the file is copyrighted media that was forgot there.


Actual results:

Firefox didn’t honored the download= attribute of the <a> element I build. As a result the mp4 video was stoping each 30s because my connection is too slow for watching. 

There’s no way to save it to my ꜱᴅ card directly http://android.stackexchange.com/q/154170/87784


Expected results:

As detailed on https://support.mozilla.org/fr/questions/792670 this the wanted behaviour to avoid confusing the dumb user.

Add‑ons proposing the save as functionality don’t let me to browse and select the target folder (and of course by design too they can’t)

So what about having this feature existing but disabled by default ? The only way to enable it would be to use an option in about:config

Or as an alternative, no longer require the write permission to the ꜱᴅ card since nothing can be written to ꜱᴅ card.

Comment 1

[ytrezq]

Currently, the way to download to ꜱᴅ card is very user unfriendly, bacuse https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/978679 needs to performed each time the target folder needs to be changed

and this doesn’t let to browse files before doing it.

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan [:kbrosnan]]

Firefox has supported <a href="foo" download> since Firefox 20. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#Attributes

Android does not ship with a file browser. about:config is not intended for general use.

Comment 3

[ytrezq]

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(In reply to Kevin Brosnan [:kbrosnan] from comment #2)
> Firefox has supported <a href="foo" download> since Firefox 20.
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#Attributes
> 
> Android does not ship with a file browser. about:config is not intended for
> general use.

Disagree, the download attribute doesn’t work for mp4 files served without the required ʜᴛᴛᴘ headers for downloading.

However, you’re right with the file browser. I admit I got confused with the feature of opera mini and chrome. See the screenshots. They really look a true file browser.
So firefox would needs to implement it’s own browsing part that allow to create folders rename files etc…
But again this isn’t something that can be done at the add‑ons level… not with the current ᴀᴘɪ for android.

Comment 4

[ytrezq]

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Comment 5

[ytrezq]

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Comment 6

[ytrezq]

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Comment 7

[ytrezq]

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Comment 8

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