The Media type , also called the MIME type or Content type , as configured by the web server, will determine what action Firefox will take.
When you tell Firefox to open or save the file and also check the option to "Do this automatically for files like this from now on" see below , a new Content Type and Action entry for that type of file will appear in the Applications section of the General panel in Firefox Options Preferences Settings.
You can change what action Firefox takes for defined content types. This will not affect media embedded in a web page - only links to the files themselves. In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click Firefox and select Preferences. Click the menu button and select Options Preferences.
Click the menu button and select Settings. When you click on a link and Firefox doesn't have a content type and download action set up for that type of file, Firefox will ask you how to handle the file:. If you are having problems with how Firefox is handling file downloads that you can't resolve, or if you just want to start fresh, you can restore the default content types and actions by manually deleting the file that stores these settings.
If you change your download setting from a single fixed folder to showing the Save As dialog every time, you can edit the file name as well as choose the location. Please see this article for where to change that setting: Startup, home page, tabs, and download settings. Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version You must remove the older programs.
Then get the current full installer. This usually fills the resources list with all sort of links, not only the desired pdfs. So the next step is to filter this list, such that only desired pdfs stays here.
Write pdf in the extensions text field. Now only pdf type resources show in the list. If the list is still too large you want only smaller subset you may continue the filtering process indicating some relevant terms in the next text filter field. Finally, you check desired items individually or all at once and start immediate downloading using the corresponding button on right bottom corner. The downloading items are now visible in the downloads tab of the popup; you can manage this list in the usual manner pause, resume, open or remove individual items etc Question 2.
How about other alternative workflows? Answer The general idea of the extension is to collect links to the resources list with optional filtering and finally to add checked items to the download queue. The collecting stage has many variations: using the web page context-menu: you can right-click individual links from the web page or a larger selected text region using the special tabs dialog; here you can collect links from active tab all tabs right tabs left tabs and even decide if the collected links must be immediately downloaded or if the associated tabs must be finally closed.
The resource list has too many links and I find it difficult to recognize the wanted ones! Answer By default, the resource list displays the estimated filenames of the collected links. These names are usually different from those displayed on the web page. There are many possible strategies here: If the desired items are images, it may be better to use the thumbnails view there is a special toggle button for this.
If you know the file extensions of the desired items, you can use this info for the extensions filter box. Sometimes it may be better to select a text zone on the web page including relevant links and use the context menu to extract only links from this selected text range. More generally, it's important to know that every item has some textual info associated to it. Or simpler, all: word if you are not sure where the word comes from.
Every item in the resource list can be right-clicked and this will reveal an informative popup will all info known for that item. Question 4. How to set a custom download directory? Answer On the resource list tab, there is a directory input field. Here the user can set a download directory. Toby Allen Palantir Palantir 23k 9 9 gold badges 74 74 silver badges 84 84 bronze badges. Thanks for that. I figured that was the case, just wanted to make absolutely sure. You've deleted the question you are linking.
Did you resolve it? This doesn't work, at least on chrome. It just says "failed - no file" or "failed - server problem" when I tried it. BrettWoodward Can you show me what's your Chrome Version? It's OK for me. BrettWoodward this happens when href value points to page with error.
Try removing "download" attribute to check if page works without downloading. Well, Palantir's answer is, for me, the most correct way! Good Luck ; Sorry for my english. Marcel Korpel Well, Mephiztopheles's answer is, for me, the most correct way!
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