281955 - Download Manger does not permit Save As

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Steve VanSlyck]

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

Download manater will not allow user to enter filename before saving file - no
"save as" option

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download a file from a link
Actual Results:  
Only two options appear: open and save.

Expected Results:  
There should be a "save as" option.

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050211
Firefox/1.0+

Are you sure that this doesn't work properly?

FWIW, if there is an interface glitch here, then it is not present on MacOS:
The Save As... context menu item allows the user to specify a filename.

Comment 2

[Steve VanSlyck]

I get no choices. Once I click a download link (e.g. a PDF) the only choices I
get are to save or open. No save as. There is an option elsewhere to select a
download folder, but that's it as far as I can tell.

I don't like download manager anway. Nothing was broke: why fix it. Just give me
a standard file dialog and then a progress bar. I don't care about other files
that were downloaded.

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

See Bug 244961 "add a pref to change the behaviour of Save Link As to not ask
for the download location"

Comment 4

[Bogdan Stroe]

If you click on a link then the download manager opens with only two options:
open and save.
However you have the option to right click on a link and choose "Save link
as..." option; this will allow you to change the file name.

Comment 5

[Steve VanSlyck]

Context clicking is not always possible. Downloading an attachment from a Yahoo
webmail message, for example, is done by a button which is not a simple link
button and right-clicking offers no solution.

Comment 6

[Steve VanSlyck]

Attachment: Restrictive Open/Save Dialog

Comment 7

[Steve VanSlyck]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to
http://recorderweb.co.franklin.oh.us/Rec/Navigate.asp?AdvancedSearch.x=90&AdvancedSearch.y=16

2. Enter User ID pub705423 and password e77954

3. Select "Advanced Search"

4. In the "Last Name/Organization" field enter "Pinnacle Club"

5. Press the "Names Summary" button

6. Select any checkbox and press the "Detail Data" button

7. Do step six again

8. Right-Click on "Display Doc" and notice that you have to ability to "Save As"

9. Click on "Display Doc" and notice that you have no ability to name the file

Actual results:
10. You have to name the file at the desktop. If you're downloading more than
one file, you have to do this over and over and over again, because the filename
of each file is "LoadImage2.tif"

Expected results:
11. Download Manager should give you an option to "Save As" - not just "Open" or
"Save" (see attached image file)

Comment 8

[Steve VanSlyck]

My apologies. Step 8 in Comment 7 should referende "no ability," not "to
abiliity." I'm spellingly challenged.

Comment 9

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This is configurable in Tools->Options->Downloads . See also bug 282151 comment 4.

Comment 10

[Paul]

Attachment: Download options mock-up

Comment 11

[Paul]

(In reply to comment #9)
> This is configurable in Tools->Options->Downloads . See also bug 282151 comment 4.

Yes, but why can't the option be shown when you are presented with download
options? I am not sure if you understand what is being asked, so I made a
mock-up of how I envision it.