You can long press on a playing html audio/video file to have an option to save the content.
Kevin 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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