279900 - No "Save target as" function in ChatZilla?

Status: NEW

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, enhancement)

Description

[Soulhunter-No.1]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If someone posts a link to a file (ie. http://www.blah.de/file.avi) @ IRC, its
not possible to save it... There is no "Right-click -> Save target as" function
in ChatZilla, only 4 different "Open link..." functions! So, it would be nice to
have a "Save target as" function for ChatZilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Post a link to a file in ChatZilla
2. Right-click on the link
3. Look...

Actual Results:  
No "Save target as" function like in FireFox InternetExplorere etc.

Expected Results:  
A "Save target as" function like in FireFox InternetExplorere etc.

Comment 1

[Samuel Sieb]

You can always right-click and open it in the browser and save from there.  But
this is certainly a valid enhancement request.

Comment 2

[Soulhunter-No.1]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You can always right-click and open it in the browser and save from there. But
> this is certainly a valid enhancement request.

Thats possibe, but...

Firefox opens some files as text !!!

Loading a 50MB video in text form, slows down the system or b0rks the
net-connection... :\

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > You can always right-click and open it in the browser and save from there. But
> > this is certainly a valid enhancement request.
> 
> Thats possibe, but...
> 
> Firefox opens some files as text !!!
> 
> Loading a 50MB video in text form, slows down the system or b0rks the
> net-connection... :\

When that happens, it's the fault of the server. The server should specify a
decent content type for files when a client accesses them. If it does not, it's
not the client fault if stuff goes wrong.

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I'd much prefer to have this WONTFIX-ed, actually... But I'm hardly the (only) person to have a say in this - opinions?

Comment 5

[James Ross]

The platform (in both XPFE and Toolkit forms) has never provided any way to standardise or use a common set of commands on links.

There is no way I'd be happy with simply adding another item to our own link context menu. I wouldn't object to having only two items in the top group, though: Open + Save, and dropping the excess of special open items. To do that, though, we'd need to make the default value of open-url follow the user's browser prefs.

I'm not going to WONTFIX this, but until someone actually does the aforementioned work it will remain as it currently is.

Comment 6

[Micah Bucy]

Any chance of getting the DownThemAll extension to read the content of the chat for links or is that something that they would need to incorporate?

Comment 7

[James Ross]

What any extension does is entirely up to that extension.