I think that's a legit complaint! We let you save inline images, but not links to images, and not links to anything else, unless you bravely tap them and hope it'll download. IIRC our UI telemetry tells us that users save images a lot.
Bug 1020230 probably covers this, so I've marked that as NEW and CCed you, Gerv. On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote: > This has been bugging me for a while; it seems pretty major, but I can't > find a bug about it, and it's been true for ages, which makes me think > it must be a policy decision. > > Why can't I download stuff using Firefox for Android? > > The usual example is an audio file - perhaps a sermon - which I want to > save to my phone to listen to later, e.g. in the car. If I just click > the link to it, it shows in the browser - and there's no "Save" option I > can find. If I long-press the link, there are lots of options to share > it with my friends, but again no "Save" or "Download" option. And HTML5 > audio players don't seem to have a long-press menu either. > > If the link markup contains the download attribute, I assume it would > trigger a download, but often, people don't know to add that. So we need > something that works in the common case where that's not there. > > At the moment, in order to get the file on my phone, I have to download > it on my desktop, connect a cable, and copy it across. This is clearly > silly. > > What gives? What am I missing? :-) > > Gerv > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev >
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