"Open with..." on links relies on filename guessing
Bug #1286968 reported by
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Midori Web Browser |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
To reproduce: right-click a link, such as the "Overview" link at the top of this page, and select "Open with...". After a significant delay, an application chooser is opened which only contains matches for the application/
What's the intended behavior here? Clearly we can't know what kind of file will result until we attempt the download, and at that point we could get 404, 302, or a 200 of any filetype. Users generally only expect a "open with" option when they already know the type of a file and have a specific program in mind for manipulating it. This is the model observed by file managers. I would recommend just removing this menu item if it has no clear story.
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| Cris Dywan (kalikiana) wrote | #1 |
| summary: |
- "Open with..." on links broken + "Open with..." on links relies on filename guessing |
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The story is the same as in the file manager, you know you'll want to use a different app to open that file, a specific common use case is also another web browser. The guess can be made on the URL itself, for example .png, can work even without having the actual file.
I agree it would be nice to improve the mechanics. It's not fundamentally broken as I see it.