191438 - Download certain filetypes to a temporary directory

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[db]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; sv-se) AppleWebKit/51 (like Gecko) Safari/51
Build Identifier: 

Some filetypes you use external viewers to view (e.g., pdf or mpg) are downloaded to the regular download folder. I like to select download folder per mime-type so I could download them to a temporary directory (typically /tmp) rather than cluttering my download folder.Some 'other' browsers offer this feature;-)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.2.3.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Mozilla 1.3b on Win NT4 or Win 2000.

If I open a file type with an application (like .pdf with Acrobat) instead of
save it to disk then these files are always saved into the temp dir and not to
the default download directory. Ok, you can't specify the behavior file type
dependent. 

Probably the first issue is Mac only?

Comment 2

[db]

Was there never any interest in this bug?

Comment 3

[Ger Teunis]

I confirm.

I'd like to execute exe files 'direcly' as well.
(like the Run command from IE)
(behind the scenes a download to temp + ShellExecute)

Comment 4

[db]

I can't believe that no one think this would a be a useful feature, especially
since Firefox for other platforms already has 50% of this functionality.
Meanwhile my desktop (download folder) is cluttered with old pdf:s, dmg:s etc.
Could this be achieved with an extension?

Comment 5

[Robert Kaiser]

The SeaMonkey team has no intention of implementing this, but feel free to develop and add.on for SeaMonkey 2 that does it!