83272 - shift+click dialog should display action selection dialog

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Marko Macek]

Currently, shift+click on a link displays a "Save as" dialog.

New proposal: shift+click (or maybe alt+click) should display the dialog where
the action is chosen for the downloaded file.

The dialog should have the following actions (some already exist):

 - Use default action
   [ action displayed here ]        (Set Default...)
 - Open in navigator
 - Open in new navigator window
 - Save to disk  
   [default download directory+filename|] (Browse...)
 - Open with application 
   [] (Choose...)
 - Open with plugin
   [] (Choose...)

Save to disk would be the default.

Default download directory should be set in prefs. The idea is to avoid the
"Save As" dialog in most cases if a reasonable filename is already provided by
the server.

Basically, what is needes is more flexibility handling various content types.

Comment 1

[Akkana Peck]

Actually, right now shift-click seems to do the same thing as unshifted click;
it doesn't necessarily display the save-as dialog, though it used to.  (I
haven't found a bug covering that yet; still searching.)  Not having an easy
Save As makes the current Mozilla very hard to use for downloading lots of files
(e.g. software sites like palmgear.com) compared to 4.x.  

Wouldn't it be better to leave shift-click to mean save as and use another
gesture for the other dialog?  Why redefine an existing and useful gesture?

Comment 2

[Marko Macek]

Well, save as could be a default action for the above dialog. There could even
be a default preset download directory.

The dialog is useful when you have a plain text file with unknown mime type and
mozilla forces you to save it. (Despite the fact that mozilla is perfectly able
to open any file even binary)

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

>The dialog is useful when you have a plain text file with unknown mime type and
>mozilla forces you to save it.

See also bug 57342, "Add 'View as Text' option for unknown mime content-type".

Comment 4

[Jonas Jørgensen]

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Comment 5

[Jeff Schiller]

Is this still valid?  Shift-click now opens a new window...