Save Opened files in Temporary Folder
-
@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.
-
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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]
-
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.
-
@astro46 not, it isn't. still saves the file to the download folder.
-
In the beginning of Vivaldi, the pdf-files for viewing were stored in the temporary folder,
hope this feature will come back to Vivaldi. -
@Nordlicht PDF files are not stored in the Download folder here. Test Link
Go to Settings, WebPages, and enable the PDF plugin.
-
@Pesala Assume that you are referring to the 'internal pdf viewer'? iac, all the items under 'plugins' is checked. and the 'test link' that you offered does open immediately in vivaldi, without an obvious intervening download.
However, this is not the case for all pdf viewing. Some require a download, which can be downloaded to any folder one chooses, but still a download, which then opens in vivaldi, and leaves the downloaded file on the computer after viewing.
A fault in construction of these pdf's or their links? Fact is, that other browsers manage to open the same links in the browser without forcing the user to go through a download and future delete routine. Question remains as to why vivaldi isn't able to do this?
-
i definitely think this request deserves a bump. the lack of this feature is for me the only reason why i am still sticking to firefox on all machines where it runs properly
-
@Gwen-Dragon said in Save Opened files in Temporary Folder:
Only 4 votes after 1 year!? Sorry to say, but it seems few users needing this.
124 votes, two pages
-
@molnart said in Save Opened files in Temporary Folder:
i definitely think this request deserves a bump. the lack of this feature is for me the only reason why i am still sticking to firefox on all machines where it runs properly
Feature? I don't call making vivaldi being able to handle pdf viewing in the same efficient way as other browsers a "feature". Not being able to simply view all pdf's without a number of extra clicks and deletions is more a design failure, if not a bug.
-
@astro46 i agree, that this is a serious flaw, however it should not concern just pdf files, but everything. i use open without save quite often for word/excel documents as well as exe installers that i only want to run once and not keep it on my drive.
-
@molnart said in Save Opened files in Temporary Folder:
@astro46 i agree, that this is a serious flaw, however it should not concern just pdf files, but everything. i use open without save quite often for word/excel documents as well as exe installers that i only want to run once and not keep it on my drive.
yes, of course. since I have used it for pdf, I didn't think about all the other formats. Open without saving should apply whenever "open" is clicked. Question is, why this was missed by Vivaldi programmers? Seems there are a few (that I am aware of) bits of Vivaldi that were released before being completed.
-
@astro46 said in Save Opened files in Temporary Folder:
Seems there are a few (that I am aware of) bits of Vivaldi that were released before being completed.
More than a few. There are many things still to be done. Vivaldi is still relatively new, and there are years of development still to be done before it could be regarded as anything close to feature complete.
The Vivaldi developers have not "missed" this, nor hundreds of other features that users want; they simply do not have the man-power/girl-power to do it all as quickly as we would like.
-
@astro46 said in Save Opened files in Temporary Folder:
... making vivaldi being able to handle pdf viewing in the same efficient way as other browsers ...
Not all other browsers do this, for example Google Chrome 79 doesn't. Just tested with these two links from previous thread comments, and Google Chrome just starts downloading the file to the Downloads folder without even giving the user a "Save As" or "Cancel" option. This seems like even worse behavior than Vivaldi.
- Link to PDF configured to automatically open in browser (and not save to computer)
- Link to PDF configured to download like any other file, which user then has to clean up later. Vivaldi respects the website configuration and downloads it like Google Chrome, but unlike Microsoft Edge which saves it to a temp folder unless the "Save As" option is selected. According to other commenters, old Opera and Firefox both do this, too, though I haven't tested this myself.
I still definitely want this feature which is why I voted for it, but let's try to be thankful for all the work the Vivaldi team is doing for us! I sure am, every major version release comes with new features which make the browser more powerful and more useful for me . And I can't wait for the day when they've finally implemented every single one of my feature requests :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:
-
@ukanuk said in Save Opened files in Temporary Folder:
Not all other browsers do this, for example Google Chrome 79 doesn't.
to my knowledge none of the chromium based browser do this, but i surely hope it's not an engine limitation. firefox, edge and old presto based opera support this. i understand not all requests can make it into the the final product immediately, but this is both desperately needed and unique - so it can likely attract a new userbase fed up with most current browsers being just a re-skinned google chrome.