GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 655175
Handle too many automatic downloads cases
Last modified: 2016-02-28 05:34:11 UTC
1) Find a link 2) Ensure it's not a format that Epiphany can open natively. 3) Click on it actual result: 4) its contents get saved to the downloads directory expected behavior: 4) a dialog or something - at least not cluttering my hard disk This is even worse if no Flash plugin is installed. I tend to end up with files named ywoLNa6xVuQ, which in the end turn out to be from opening http://www.youtube.com/v/ywoLNa6xVuQ when I wanted http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywoLNa6xVuQ but I'm sure you can find lots of places to reproduce it with PDF files, videos or java applets hidden behind innocently looking URLs.
Do you have automatically download and open files checked in your preferences?
There is only "Automatically open downloaded files". And that is not checked here.
That checkbox now means that every download automatically calls its "open" function when finished. Benjamin's problem is that downloads now start automatically, always. Which can be nasty when you are "nuked" with a lot of download links. The real problem is that you can trigger a lot of downloads, doesn't really matter if there's a dialog in between or not because you would still have to cancel all the pesky windows. Would it be smarter to keep an eye for this "DoS" scenario of downloads? I don't think that adding dialogs is the right thing.
No, not really. My probem is that a link that I think of as a link (often it's a redirect, like in the youtube example) is treated like a download. I think the magic that is used to determine if something is a download is too stupid. Downloading everything that you cannot display is not a good way to determine this. It's not how I would define "download".
This bug was reported against a version which is not supported any more. Developers are no longer working on this version so there will not be any bug fixes for it. Can you please check again if the issue you reported here still happens in a recent version of GNOME and update this report by adding a comment and adjusting the 'Version' field? Again thank you for reporting this and sorry that it could not be fixed for the version you originally used here. Without feedback this report will be closed as INCOMPLETE after 6 weeks.
Nowadays the file is not downloaded, but instead the download bar appears and hangs at "starting" which is even worse. (Test with the first link in comment #0. Also happens for attachments on bugzilla.gnome.org if the MIME type is set to application/octet-stream.)
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #6) > Nowadays the file is not downloaded, but instead the download bar appears > and hangs at "starting" which is even worse. (Test with the first link in > comment #0. Also happens for attachments on bugzilla.gnome.org if the MIME > type is set to application/octet-stream.) And nowadays it's downloaded automatically again. I dunno what to do about this; I don't think we want to display a dialog before downloading files, which is the only way I see to resolve this, at least not by default... Ben, it's been a while, what do you think nowadays? FWIW, I almost never download files accidentally, and I think saving them automatically is what most users will want, but I suppose it would be OK to add some dialog like Firefox has... that would let you save the files straight where you want them to go, too, something I rather miss from Firefox.
I'm gonna go ahead and mark this as a dup of bug #650454, which is similar.... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 650454 ***