Ticket #511 (new defect)
Firefox saves downloads to ~/Desktop with no option to save elsewhere
| Reported by: | geofft | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | Upstream Utopia |
| Component: | upstream | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
| Upstream bug: |
Description
If you get a file with Content-Disposition: attachment or similar such that it opens a download prompt, your options are "save file", which saves into AFS, or "cancel". You have to right-click and Save As to be able to pick a place to download it -- and on certain sites, if the download link is an <input type="submit"> or a <meta refresh>, you can't do that. This is a problem with CD/DVD images and other things that are unlikely to fit in your AFS homedir but can easily fit in /tmp.
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kchen points out that we can address this locally by having our Firefox extension set browser.download.useDownloadDir to false (i.e., Edit | Preferences | Always ask me where to save files). Does this sound reasonable?