164433 - Have to wait for SaveAs dialog to come up

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 160454

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

When trying to save a document to a file (e.g. Save Link Target As...), it takes
a second or longer for the Save As dialog (to choose a filename) to come up.
Obviously, Mozilla is making a network request (doing a HTTP HEAD or waiting for
the HTTP response head or something like that) before opening the dialog.

That severely harms my workflow (e.g. saving a lot of links takes several times
longer because of that problem) and I see no need for that. Mozilla should open
the dialog instantly without making a network request first.

Rationale:
I guess Mozilla wants to know the mimetype to make a good suggestion on the
filename extention. However:
- Mozilla uses the last part of the URL as part of the filename anyways
  (e.g. <http://www.mozilla.org/foo.html> saves to foo.html by default),
  and that usually already has a good filename extension. If not, the user
  can still fix it up.
- (more importantly) On Unix and Mac, the filename extension has no
  direct meaning.
  - Unix usually uses |file| to figure out the file type has a mimetype
    attribute in the filesystem.
  - Mac records the filetype in the filesystem.
  Since the filename extension has no meaning, it is pointless to let the
  user wait to make a good suggestion on it.
  (This is why the OS field is sat to Linux.)

Comment 1

[Jerry Baker]

See Bug 160454.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160454 ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verification of Duplicates.

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