On 1/19/13 7:34 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
> On 1/19/13 5:52 PM, MCBastos wrote:
>> Interviewed by CNN on 19/01/2013 17:53, Tom told the world:
>>> When I download an .html page seamonkey uses no longer the filename in the 
>>> URL since V2.15 but it uses the description of the page as filename.
>>>
>>> Can I change this that it is like before?
>>>
>>
>> Well, this change in behavior was documented in bug 254139:
>> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254139>
>>
>> Apparently this change has been requested for years, and Mozilla was the
>> only major browser who did *not* do this. The reasoning is that in most
>> cases the page <title> field is more descriptive than the filename --
>> that's particularly true in large sites with automatically-generated pages.
>>
>> There isn't a pref to turn it off, but Gavin Sharp made an extension for
>> people who prefer the old way (linked from Comment #71 on the bug thread):
>>
>> <https://github.com/gavinsharp/SaveAsFilename>
>>
>>
> 
> The SaveAsFilename extension is not compatible with SeaMonkey.  It
> appears to be a Firefox-only extension.
> 

A version of the SaveAsFilename extension modified for SeaMonkey does
install, but it does not work.  With it installed and enabled, the file
name is still being taken from the title element instead of the URI.

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