#Firefox mp4 download stopped movie#

(And, in many cases, I can just do the right-click thing, but sometimes I forget, and on one server I don't have that option, so it's actually more 'seamless' for me to never have the browser try to play video from direct links.) (In this case, I am the user. :) )Īnd, in general, I'd want this functionality to work from any server with a direct link to a file. I'm trying to download from someone else's server, so have no access to the settings on it. Well, I only use Firefox, so I'd be fine if it's specific to Firefox. If you are wanting to force the download of the files you can do this from the server side by adding something like (for e.g. With so many video playing apps in the market, it just makes the experience more fluid and easier to manager by having the web browser handle it. Is this a specific behavior solely for Firefox to perform or do you want it to be the same across all browsers for the user experience?īrowsers in general are producing a seamless experience by enabling video display direct in the View so that there is less downloading and swapping of technology to render the video. MP4 files, and it ignores that setting and plays the video anyway.

That's why I provided that link to test so others can see the problem I'm having. If there's some way to make clicking on the MP4 link give me an 'Always Ask' style dialog so I can chose download instead of play, that will fix my problem. Only now, since the 'Always Ask' functionality is broken, I never get the download prompt, it just starts playing. The videos I need to download I can't right-click on, they are buttons I have to 'normal-click' on, then I get the download prompt, but the functionality is the same as if you clicked the 'MP4' link under the video in the sample link. I'm not trying to find alternative ways of saving a video, I'm trying to get Firefox to work like it's supposed to (and used to). Yep, but that does not answer my question.

I Right-Clicked on the Bunny video itself and there's a ''''Save Video As'''' option. It's a scripted button that sends back the link to the file when clicked on.) While this works on the sample page, it doesn't work on the pages I have to download these videos from. (Another work-around that may seem obvious is to right-click the file name and click 'Save Link As'. I've been able to do this with every version of Firefox 'pre-Quantum', but I just can't make the latest version do it. NOTHING should attempt to play in the web browser itself. The action I want, when I click on any one of those, is for Firefox to prompt me with a download location to save the file to (the usual 'Always Ask' dialog box). Underneath the thumbnail image/embedded video there direct links to an mp4, ogg video and WebM video. (If it's just renaming the file, I can live with this one bug if I can make the rest of the functionality work.)Ĭan anyone explain an easier way to manually add an extension into the Application section? I'm not sure if it's actually re-wrapping the file into another container, or just arbitrarily adding an extra extension to the filename, but I need it to, by default, save as the file name that is used on the server. Tried doing a 'Save As' while it was playing to just save my file, but Firefox then tries to save the file as '4' instead of just 'FileName.m4v'.

#Firefox mp4 download stopped movie#

Set both Mpeg-4 Movie and the manual m4v entry to 'Save File'. m4v by editing handlers.json, and setting it to 'Always ask'. Even if the link is an mp4, it still plays it in the browser. How can I fix this?Ĭhanging the default action to 'Mpeg-4 movie' under Options/Applications to 'Always Ask'. Nothing I do will give me the 'Ask what to do' prompt. Whenever I click the link, it automatically opens up a blank page and starts playing the video. m4v video file that I need to download (I don't ever want links directly to m4v, mp4, mov, etc playing in the browser, I need to download these files to my computer). Using Firefox 65, I'm trying to get back a basic functionality I've had for years (prior to Quantum).