228110 - Sort by file extension in Page Info

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Page Info, enhancement)

Description

[Ben Jackson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

This is a request for a fairly large and complicated set of new features.  The
frequency with which it would be helpful is low, but there are some cases where
it would be great.

In the page info window on the Links tab, it would be helpful if 
1. clicking on the column headers sorted the list by that column.
2. there was a column available for the file extension of the file to which the
link points
3. there were additional columns for the information provided about the link by
and HTTP "HEAD" request, like file size, date modified, mime type, etc.  (I
don't know how practical this is.)
4. once one or more links were selected it was possible to:
   4a. Open selected links in tabs
   4b. Save selected links to disk
   4c. Copy selected URLs in cut and paste buffer

To make the argument for why this would be helpful, here is a use case for it
that I jsut encountered:

On this page:

http://gandalf.psych.umn.edu/~kersten/kersten-lab/courses/Psy5038WF2003/5038Syllabus.html

I want to download all the Mathematica notebook files.  There are about 30 of
them, so doing manually requires some somewhat time-consuming effort.  With the
propose fuinctions, the user could open the links pane of the page info window,
sort by file extension, select all the .nb files and choose "save selected links
to disk", then work on something else while waiting.

Thanks for all the work that has gone in to Firebird and Mozilla in general.  It
is great product and has completely won me over.





Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Page info > Links:
Bug 141714 Option to save all links in page info as html
Bug 188049 no multiple-copy for links in page info
Bug 103704 Page Info: More info and navigable links

Sidebar panel:
Bug 28605 list links on page in a sidebar panel

Context menus for selections:
Bug 9274 Allow opening multiple new URLs in new windows at once. (need a way to
open many links in new tabs at once)
Bug 105580 Enhanced context menu for selections

Comment 2

[Pham]

This is too complex and should be wonrfix

Comment 3

[Ali Ebrahim]

Per conversation with Daniel Brooks, I'm moving this over to Browser Page Info.

As Jesse pointed out, most of these already have been addressed in other bugs,
with the exception of request 2, so I'm updating the summary to reflect that
this bug is only for that.

Reporter, in the future, if you have more than one suggestion, please file
separate bugs for each. Thanks.

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 5

[Philip Chee]

WONTFIX: See the following post in mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey:
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey/browse_thread/thread/722358827994743a/5b76454811bb342d