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Download from URL

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Eamoex
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Hi all,

I wonder how it can be that I cannot find a solution to this in 2016, probably I'm not paying attention in some way.

I would like to do what the iGet addon apparently did, which is, start a download from a text URL (without having to create an HTML file containing a link). There must be a way for me to paste an URL pointing to a file in some text field and then start the download by pressing enter.

iGet stopped being compatible about 20 Firefox versions ago.

So. How do I do this?

Hi all, I wonder how it can be that I cannot find a solution to this in 2016, probably I'm not paying attention in some way. I would like to do what the iGet addon apparently did, which is, start a download from a text URL (without having to create an HTML file containing a link). There must be a way for me to paste an URL pointing to a file in some text field and then start the download by pressing enter. iGet stopped being compatible about 20 Firefox versions ago. So. How do I do this?

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Hyncharas
Hyncharas
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It really would be helpful if there was a "Download from URL" option available in the Library dialog - especially for IPX (add-on) files that you want to download and install manually.