Closed Bug 1762173 Opened 2 years ago Closed 2 years ago

New "Force download" feature it's annoying

Categories

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Downloads Panel
Version:
Firefox 98
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1738574

People

(Reporter: luca.dgh, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0

Steps to reproduce:

Download any file form the internet.

Actual results:

Starting from Firefox 98 it is forced the file download option, even if I choose "Always ask what to do". That's annoying because it's not always required to physically download the file. TEMP folder is there for a good reason and Firefox must respect that reason.

Expected results:

Firefox should respect my preference. If I set "Always ask what to do" Firefox MUST NOT download the file automatically. If people is annoyed from the "Always ask what to do" window, they will choose automatic download and problem fixed.
I usually open hundreds of files per day from internet, but I need to download 1% of them, why I have to clean my download folder manually each day?

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Widget: Gtk
Product: Firefox → Core

(In reply to Release mgmt bot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte] from comment #1)

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Actually I think this is a general issue, not referred to a single version of Firefox.

I guess it's more Networking issue than Gtk one.

Component: Widget: Gtk → Networking
Component: Networking → DOM: Navigation

This is some frontend feature.

Component: DOM: Navigation → Downloads Panel
Product: Core → Firefox

I really agree to this issue!
A workaround was mentioned in this comment: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1758609#c16 :
Set the desired directory (most probably some temporary one) at the "Save files to" option and then switch back to "Always ask". The files for those one selects "open with" are then downloaded to the directory set at the non-choosen option.

Nonetheless this is very counter-intuitive UX and should be improved imo.

This issue is tracked in 1738574 and comment 5 is the workaround I would suggest in the meantime.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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