Save Opened files in Temporary Folder
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@christian-rauch Try with a PDF on a website that is correctly configured
In .htaccess should be a line for PDF files:
AddType application/pdf .pdf
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@pesala I have, and have had, internal pdf viewer checked. Vivaldi still downloads a file, perhaps to where ever I direct, if I use 'save as', but saves nevertheless. Bad design.
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@astro46 It's dictated by the Chromium engine. Developers haven't yet replaced that part of the code.
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@astro46 Did you test with the link that I provided? We know about the behaviour of save and save as, but if the site is correctly configured for PDF files and the plugin is enabled, the PDF file will open in a tab and will not be saved in the download folder.
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I hadn't seen this feature request before, but definitely agree with it.
Would be nice if it came with an added option of "Save & Open" as well, so that the current behaviour remains available when a user prefers it. ^^ -
@pesala The link you provided opens the PDF directly in Vivaldi without saving it locally.
However, it would still be nice if files that are not explicitly saved are only stored in a temporary folder before opening. This applies to all files, not only PDFs. -
@pesala said in Save Opened files in Temporary Folder:
@astro46 Did you test with the link that I provided? We know about the behaviour of save and save as, but if the site is correctly configured for PDF files and the plugin is enabled, the PDF file will open in a tab and will not be saved in the download folder.
Yes, you are correct. I haven't seen this behavior previously. always opened the save, save as, etc window. I tried it on another pdf, at random, from a search. It worked well also.
And, thanks for the pdf about meditation. I have saved it for reading later.
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I work around this issue on Windows by:
- Setting my default download location to
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\Vivaldi
- Never use
Save
, only useSave As
orOpen
.
This is just
%temp%\Vivaldi
, except Vivaldi doesn't save files to that path, so one has to enter the whole path.The files are automatically cleaned up after awhile (by Windows? Vivaldi? I don't know). And because it's in a temp folder, I am able to ignore that it isn't deleted immediately, knowing that it will be deleted within a few days.
But this is a workaround, I agree that ultimately
Open
should save to a tmp folder, and the new buttonSave & Open
should be added. - Setting my default download location to
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@pesala This is not a matter of "site being configured correctly". It is simply a choice on the website designer's part. When a file (pdf, image, even html) is meant to be downloaded, rather than viewed in browser, "Content-disposition: attachment" header in the HTTP response forces the browser to download it. HTML download attribute achieves a similar result.
However, sometimes, contrary to the site's designer's expectation, I just want to view the file inside browser without saving it somewhere. With Firefox, this is frictionless, I open it and view it, and it gets deleted some time later. With Vivaldi, I need to pick a saving location even though I don't want the file saved; and after viewing it I need to remember to delete it.
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@debiedowner Understood, which is the reason for this feature request, but if the server is correctly configured to open PDF in the browser (and not configured to force a download), then they won't be saved in the downloads folder.
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@Pesala But that only really applies to PDFs. Old Opera I believe had this option for all files, regardless of type. So if you were about to download a Word doc and you press "Open", it would save the doc in a temporary folder and open it in Word.
I'd say that I delete at least 50% of all files I download after I have viewed them, so making "Open" only store files temporarily would be amazing.
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for me this is the single most annoying thing that prevents me from using Vivaldi as my main browser. i would take this feature request even further by adding a firefox style 'Open with' function.
as as it has been previously already said, this is not just about pdf sites, but word, xls documents, torrent files, etc. i honestly cannot imagine how the millions of chrome users are able live without this feature -
@molnart said in Save Opened files in Temporary Folder:
i would take this feature request even further by adding a firefox style 'Open with' function.
Vote for Open With in Download Manager
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Already several posts clearly showing that this 'feature' is important, but unfortunately still missing!
Having to go through the 'download' folder to delete the downloaded files is troublesome... 'Open' should mean 'open', not save.
Looking forward to seeing this implemented soon. Thanks! -
currently this is the 3rd most upvoted feature request for vivaldi and the most upvoted one what is not marked as "in progress". although someone added a "BUG" tag on it, so hopefully it means the solution is already somewhere in the pipeline
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I really need this function as well. I use Maxthon now and saving things into TEMP which I just open (because I need to peek in them just once) seems to me natural. I don't know why download directory should be filled with those files.
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In the download prompt, when we choose to "open" instead of "save", please save the file to our system's temp folder instead of to our normal downloads folder. Because opened downloads are intended to be saved only temporarily, for convenience. This is already a standard behavior in other browsers. Please fix.
[bug reported VB-51649]
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This fixed in new ver. 2.5? i've tried clicking on .pdf from a couple of sites and the pdf's just open, no "open, save, save to, ..." option box . They just opened. Hopefully this is accurate and will continue to work across sites.
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@astro46 not, it isn't. still saves the file to the download folder.
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In the beginning of Vivaldi, the pdf-files for viewing were stored in the temporary folder,
hope this feature will come back to Vivaldi.