1815374 - Downloads save automatically, no folder picker pop-up, despite "Always ask you where to save" checked

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Dan Dascalescu]

Attachment: Ask where to download is checked

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Download a link from Gmail, e.g. a PDF from Uber confirmation emails

Actual results:

Firefox saves the file without asking where.

Expected results:

Many similar bugs:

#713378
#1782416
#1799855

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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

Comment 2

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Hi @Dan, Does this issue still occur if you set The PDF content type action to Save File instead of Open in Firefox ? I think Its intended for the Actions set for different file types to override the Always ask you where to save files.

I think this is intended behavior but one of our devs can take a look and close it as Invalid if its not a valid issue.

Comment 3

[Dan Dascalescu]

The issue no longer occurs. I agree it makes sense for Firefox to open the PDF in the browser. Save Link As... is an adequate workaround for saving the file. Fee free to close.