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Feature request: Open downloaded file without saving #3354

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marc1uk opened this issue Feb 14, 2019 · 2 comments
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Feature request: Open downloaded file without saving #3354

marc1uk opened this issue Feb 14, 2019 · 2 comments
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@marc1uk
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marc1uk commented Feb 14, 2019

Description

This was a requested feature in the brave-laptop repository that had quite a lot of upvotes, but seems to have been dropped with the archived repository.
Often users will want to view a file once, and be done with it. Currently with Brave this requires saving the file, choosing a suitable location, navigating there in a file explorer, double-clicking the item, and then remembering to delete it later. Other browsers allow the option to 'Open (With)' when downloading a file, in which case the browser saves the file to a temporary location, opens the file, and clears the temporary directory on close. This would be a nice addition to Brave.

Steps to Reproduce

Click a file.

Actual result:

You must save the file. Then show it in explorer. Then open it. Then delete it when done.

Expected result:

You can choose to 'Open' the file, in which case Brave downloads to a temporary directory and automatically opens it (possibly giving the user the option of which program to open with, as this can vary).

Reproduces how often:

Always

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave | 0.59.35 Chromium: 72.0.3626.81 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision | ac8b982e05014492d1bd7d317628a4f22a97ffa0-refs/branch-heads/3626@{#796}
OS | Linux

Reproducible on current release:

Not sure

Additional Information

Move of Brave-laptop issue 1924: brave/browser-laptop#1924

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eljuno commented Feb 14, 2019

Duplicate of #2153?

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marc1uk commented Feb 14, 2019

Yep. Damnit, I did search the issues first, not sure how I didn't find that.

@marc1uk marc1uk closed this as completed Feb 14, 2019
@srirambv srirambv added this to the Dupe / Invalid / Not actionable milestone Feb 14, 2019
@srirambv srirambv added the closed/duplicate Issue has already been reported label Feb 14, 2019
@bbondy bbondy removed this from the Dupe / Invalid / Not actionable milestone May 30, 2020
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