265488 - Selections of multiple links and "Save Link Target As..." should result in multiple downloads.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 200267

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Xuân Baldauf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817

Saving multiple files referred from one page is tedious, because, currently, the
user has to save each file separately. Using "wget" is also not optimal, because
often, the user does not want to save every file referred by some web page, but
only a subset of those files.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. View an HTML page which contains links (e.g. http://www.mozilla.org/)
2. Select some text which covers more than one link.
3. Open the Context Menu (e.g.: click right mouse button) while the mouse cursor
is over some selected link.
4. Select "Save Link Target As..."

Actual Results:  
Mozilla opens a "Save As" dialog for the link where the mouse was over. After
the user successfully selects the destination directory (and filename), Mozilla
downloads the file represented by the link where the mouse was over.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have opened a "Save Multiple Files" dialog for all selected
links. After the user successfully selects the destination directory (and maybe:
_not_ any filename), Mozilla downloads every file represented by every link
which was selected.

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

Bug 200267  	easy way to start a download from a known URL or list of URLs
Bug 245344 	new feature: save target as -- for all marked links

see Bug 200267 Comment #3

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 200267 ***