129780 - better enable to use of download managers

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58744

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Damien Covey]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020308
BuildID:    2002030807

Users should be able to use a download manager more readily from mozilla. 
Perhaps a similar way to how Galeon does this.  Have mozilla open an external
program to handle the URL. ie. nt %s to use "Downloader for X" in linux. 
Currently is I set mozilla to use nt %s it opens Downloader for X after mozilla
has downloaded the URL, there should be a way to have the external program
handle (download) the url.  This could possibly be used for other programs, ie
streaming media.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:


Expected Results:  When clicking on a url to download, a dialog box is shown
that lets the user select how the downlod should be handled, ie ue external
download manager, use mozilla to download, open with "applicatonx".  Perhaps a
checkbox to indicate if applicationx should download the file itself, or moz
should download file then pass to applicatoinx.

Comment 1

[Alex Bishop]

This looks like a duplicate of bug 58744 but that bug appears to be rather
Windows-centric.

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

over to filehandling, I guess we could make this a linux version of that bug

Comment 3

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58744 ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

if you decide to reopen this bug, please clarify why.

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