Download Link with Alt+Click

[Pesala]

What is going on here. I happened to Alt+Click on a YouTube Video and got this dialogue.

A similar thing happens when using Alt+Click on any link. Is this supposed to happen and what does one do with a file of zero bytes?

If I go ahead and download it, I get an HTML file named watch.html, which is 474 Kbytes. It opens in Vivaldi but does not play the video. I just get a YouTube header.

[Komposten]

Does not happen to me; the links open as normal. Nothing special on YouTube either.

Maybe it's related to some settings in Vivaldi or an extension?

[Pesala]

@Komposten To see it more easily, disable:

Alt Key for Main Menu

With that setting enabled, press Alt to show the button menu, the Alt+Click on a YouTube video.

[Pathduck]

Same thing happens to me, both in Snapshot and clean Stable profile.

I think Alt is supposed to be for downloading an image or a link right? But it's just never worked in Vivaldi. Apparently it should work in Chrome. Does anyone have Chrome to test?
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/157179
Download the target of a link Alt + Click a link

On other pages as well.
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_image_gallery.asp
You still get a 0 byte download but the images download...

[Pesala]

@Pathduck Thanks for confirming.

I submitted a bug report:

(VB-66806) Alt+Click on Link or Image Link open Download Dialog

[Pathduck]

@Pesala Great

I just tested in Chromium latest and Alt-clicking a link opens a download dialog for the target image or page.

Hopefully now that 3.0 is out the team can focus on fixing these kinds of accessibility issues.

[Komposten]

@Pesala said in Download Link with Alt+Click:

@Komposten To see it more easily, disable:

Alt Key for Main Menu

With that setting enabled, press Alt to show the button menu, the Alt+Click on a YouTube video.

I tested with that both enabled and disabled. If I Alt+Click a link, it opens the link normally. If I Alt+Click a YouTube video, it doesn't resume the video but not open a download dialog either.

[iAN CooG]

What if is an intended behaviour? I wouldn't mind to have a "save link as"/"save pic as" without using the context menu, infact I use Classic Images extension for that.

[Pesala]

@iAN-CooG Opera used Ctrl+Click, but if Alt+Click worked without showing the dialog it would be useful.

[Pathduck]

@iAN-CooG said in Download Link with Alt+Click:

What if is an intended behaviour?

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/157179
Under "mouse shortcuts". I assume Vivaldi's just inherited this behaviour from Chromium but never actually tested if it works properly...

@Komposten
It differs on some sites, like this forum links open normally. Try for instance here:
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_image_gallery.asp
Alt-Click on Next/Previous will give you a 0-byte download for the target page. On an image, a 0-byte download dialog.

Come to think of it, it "kind of" works... You do get the download, the problem seems to be the 0-byte size, which can be explained by Vivaldi simply not actually knowing the size of the target download before attempting it. Chromium just pops up a save dialog, with no indication of file size either.

I suspect this feature was always kind of wonky and little tested all along the way from Chromium, and since few users would even know about it, no need to spend dev time refining it...

[Komposten]

@Pathduck said in Download Link with Alt+Click:

It differs on some sites, like this forum links open normally. Try for instance here:
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_image_gallery.asp
Alt-Click on Next/Previous will give you a 0-byte download for the target page. On an image, a 0-byte download dialog.

Ah, I see. Yeah, those links show the download prompt.