If I understood Gerv correctly, he's also saying that a media file being
shown and played inside the browser should always allow to save it. And
I agree. Not just long-press, but directly in the "..." menu. This is a
very commonly needed feature, indeed.
Ben
Richard Newman wrote on 16.06.2015 15:35:
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]
<mailto:[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
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