HOW TO: make vivaldi open downloaded files automatically
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It's probably a security risk and best to leave that option out.
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@j1simon I absolutely agree with you… I had used Firefox for years, as it slowly declined in functionality. The developers kept removing different functions with the pat answer: "It's a security risk"... They arbitrary changed the internals (to an incompatible Chrome clone) so that all the add-ons had to be re-written. Hundreds of useful and long used add-ons disappeared because the add-on developers said, "screw it" and didn't spend many unpaid hours, converting, only to become a beta program again. There was no reasoning with the developers. There were hundreds and hundreds of requests and they all fell on deaf ears because these developers thought that they were the all-knowing oracle. They believed that they were far smarter/better than the users and that the user's requests were foolish. The developers were making Firefox work just as THEY thought it should work -- and who do these petty users think they are, anyway.
So, all this boils down to 'what the users want, they should get' (given that there are a number of users that want it). If ten users say that opening a file automatically should be an OPTION then it should be. And any user who is so incompetent that they change this option from the default of NO to some form of YES without understanding (or asking) what that does, is their problem. We don't need developers, or anyone else, dictating what options are not safe, in their opinions, and that they need to protect us from ourselves.
Sorry for rambling.
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@sjf2
Therefor we have 8 votes for the OP in two years, development cant fit everyone.
If you try your software get messed up very fast.
The first thing users switch off was Google extensions after it was implemented and the forum was flooded with bug reports about not working Google services.Cheers, mib
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As someone who relied on this for a while, let me share a workaround and a mindset change. Torrent clients such as utorrent or qbittorrent have a watched folder option which vacuums up all downloaded torrents. Once I found this I no longer had to rely on the browser (or me) opening these files. Take it a step further and in qbittorrent you can set up a level of automation that is very seamless. Pick a default downloads folder and any added torrent will start and use that. With the automatic management, once you add a category to the torrent (presumably after you check the completed ones) files get relocated to their final HDD seeding place according to another path, this time set for the category. This allows you to leverage SSD speeds (during downloading) if that is holding the downloads folder, and still give control over the final location.
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Mac users: did editing the Preferences file as described here work for you? I assume the Mac version is here:
~/Library/Application Support/Vivaldi/Default/Preferences.. but editing it did not work for me. Since my use case does not involve any clients that watch a dir, I suppose that leaves me to write my own directory monitor..
A shame that one can't just configure auto-open on select, safe, filetypes.
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2023, still not implemented? Come on, guys.
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Opening downloaded files automatically is as bad idea as playing videos automatically. I hope they never add it, so we'd never have to turn it off back
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jesus christ, how the hell this isn't a supported feature, even the turned off by default one?
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@Levrant jesus, it's not a question of implement it for everybody, but to have a choice for those who want it. I need that feature to open for example .torrent files automatically
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Setting to Open/Save related to MIME-Type was in old Opera 12 and good feature.
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@JigSaW3xD Vote for Support for MIME Types, which in Opera 12.18 gives comprehensive control over what to do with each file type:
