255181 - shortcut "shift - left-mousebutton" does not behave like "save link target as" (as in Mozilla Suite)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Frank]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

One very common operation for me is to save pictures, documents, PDF etc. with
the mouse-shorcut "shift - left-mousebutton". In the Mozilla Suite that was
equivalent to "save link target as". In Firefox, shift-click opens the document
instead. That is very undesireable (already working with normal click). Now I
have to select the "save link as" in the context menu. With some extensions the
menu is very long and it takes too much time and attention and one click too
much. That is very annoying, please switch back to the old Mozilla suite behaviour.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. SHIFT left-mouse-button on a link

Actual Results:  
Opens the link as document (HTML, picture, PDF)


Expected Results:  
Save the document (like in Mozilla Suite "save link target as")

Comment 1

[PikeUK]

In Firefox:

shift-click = new window
ctrl-click = new tab
alt-click = save

Comment 2

[Frank]

Oh sorry, I didn't try the ALT-click. Although the description "save page"
suggests something different than the old "save link target as" it's in fact
exactly the same behaviour. I'm closing the issue, sorry again for annoying the
bugzilla for that.

p.s. if somebody's working on the key-mapping: I miss some more functions like a
key for "manage bookmarks", toggle side-bar on-off, starting a web-editor with
ctrl-e (e.g. for calling the old mozilla composer), ideally a key for every
function mozilla has (too much mouse activity over years is causing the RSI
syndrome)

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

*** Bug 274491 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 288130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***