Allow Firefox to open links instead of having to always download it?

velvta · Post by **velvta** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:07 pm

OK one thing I loved about IE was that if there was a file I wanted, i could choose to simply open the file (rar file for example) and drag the contents out to the folder I want in my PC instead of having to download it then open it, then delete the original rar file. From what I've been reading, Firefox disallows this because I guess they feel users need to be "protected" against themselves. I find this to be retarded. Does anyone know of anything I can edit anywhere to allow this? I did find this extension called OpenDownload to do exactly what i wanted , but I installed it and it's not working.

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:34 pm

n/m worng link. that was not it

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:39 pm

I dont have a plugin installed and when I click a link to a rar file im given the option to open or save it so I don't know why you aren't.

Do you have FF set to automatically download to a certain folder or something?

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:52 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:I dont have a plugin installed and when I click a link to a rar file im given the option to open or save it so I don't know why you aren't.

Do you have FF set to automatically download to a certain folder or something?

ditto. default is save all files to desktop, option is ask where to download all files
actions can be set for specific file types I believe.

YoS, I think what velvta wants is to have only the extracted files downloaded.

I prefer downloading any files to my box, then scan before unpacking.

I don't recall IE having an option to open rar files, then extract, then download only the extracted files to the computer. If the files have to go to a cache on your hdd anyway (since we're not talking server side extraction), why not just download the rar to your computer in the first place?

one other thought velvta, firefox is faster and more secure than IE. That's prolly why ff developers feel folks need to be protected from things like you want to do.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:12 pm

Even if he only wants a certain file or files IE would still download it all, just to a temp folder.