804304 - Provide context menu on link to download file target rather than play it on supported audio/video Content-Types

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Demetrius S.]

I have been unable to download mp3 and mp4 files. Either from clicking download links, which just start playing them. Nor by long pressing on a link to one of those files which doesn't give an option to save link as. File I tested on http://housemat.ca/podcast/mp3/1-the-beginning.mp3

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

We don't have a full context menu on html5 video atm.

Comment 2

[Demetrius S.]

(In reply to Kevin Brosnan [:kbrosnan] from comment #1)
> We don't have a full context menu on html5 video atm.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 701785 ***

I mean when you long press a link containing an mp3 there is no option to save the link as something.

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

This might be a dupe of bug 791654; pretty much the same request just different implementation.

Comment 4

[Bob Peck]

I don't meant to be a pest, but I've been running into this same problem with Firefox for awhile now. I manage a couple of podcast websites and often download episodes of other podcasts from their sites. All of these podcast posts include the option to "Listen Now" (which activates a player within the post), or "Download" which is supposed to download the file - but Firefox opens its own play instead, making downloading of the file impossible. See my friend's podcast here for an example - http://www.castlereport.us/

I searched the forum and found a fix for this in the past, but I keep finding myself on a different computer, or updating, or... and having to go hunt down the instructions for the fix again. Tonight I just don't have it in me to go through fixing Firefox again and so am using Chrome to download podcasts instead. I really like Firefox and have used it since switching from the Mozilla suite back when Firefox was at something like version 2 or 3. I'd be happy to donate to the project again, as I've tried to do from time to time with this and other opensource "free" projects, but I really need a browser that can download files and right now Firefox fails that very basic test.

Comment 5

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Bob,

As a result of bug 791654, as mentioned in comment #3, it is possible to save audio. In may not be intuitive, but you can long-tap on the player controls when the MP3 is loaded and in the context menu you will see a 'Save Audio'. I tried it out on your mentioned URL: http://www.castlereport.us/. While there is no direct traditional 'save target' or 'save link as' off a link (this bug). You can still directly save the audio in the interim by doing as mentioned.

Comment 6

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

If you have control of the pages in question, I briefly glanced at the page you linked to and didn't see a content-disposition header on the download link. That will force a download. Otherwise we'll try to play it (or find an app to play it for you). You can also use a "download" attribute on the anchor in HTML5 to force the link to be downloaded:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#Attributes