Closed Bug 292478 Opened 20 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Download manager should skip 'choose action' prompt for EXE files

Categories

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Downloads API
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: cilias, Unassigned)

References

Details

Clicking on an EXE file in Firefox (aviary or trunk), a prompt comes up asking
the user to either "Open with" or "Save as", with a checkbox to remember the
action. Since all options are greyed out, except "Save as", Firefox should be
set, by default, to choose the "save as" option, so the 'choose action' prompt
is skipped, and goes straight to prompting the user where to save the file (and
renaming if necessary).
While I agree with you on this, it'd be an enhancement, and thus I've marked it
as such.
Severity: normal → enhancement
*** Bug 341911 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 360770 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
For applications, the dialog is now "Save File" and "Cancel" - no grayed out "Open with".
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Sorry - neither resolved, nor invalid. This is EXACTLY the kind of behaviour, that prompted me to file a bug report/feature request, which has been defined a duplicate of this issue:
It is not logical to ask the same question twice - Save or cancel, and, after pressing save, save or cancel again in the file dialog. Please, remove superfluous, intermediate dialogs if they add no benefit.

Going to getfirefox.com and clicking the download link results in a "Save File/Cancel" dialog and after hitting save, the download shows up in the download manager. Is this not the behavior that you want?
Now I see the reason for the confusion: I set Firefox to "always ask me where to  save files", and completely forgot about the other options. So I am first asked whether I want to download or cancel, and then I get the file dialog, offering similar "SAVE" and "CANCEL" buttons again. Being a heavy downloader, I would prefer to be able to bypass the first dialog.
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
So basically you want a "always save" option?  I looked through the following kb article and can't find a way to do that, it appears you can just set all filetypes to always save in the helper applications tab, though.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/File_types_and_download_actions
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