when I click on a file, how can I skip saving it and go straight to running it?
Every file I have had to download has made me save the file. How can I get it to just open the file without having it automatically saved somewhere on my hard drive?
Alle antwurden (2)
Well, if the program is not saved, how can the computer run it? I know that
Windows Explorer can do this. The file is saved to a temporary folder, ran,
then removed. I don't know if Firefox can do that.
Go to the
Mozilla Add-ons Web Page
(There’s a lot of good stuff here)
and look for something that can do this for you.
You can set how you want to handle files globally under Options → General.
You can set what you want to do with particular files types under Options → Applications.
You'll always see a download prompt if the server sends either the Content-Disposition: attachment or the Content-Type: application/octet-stream header. You can either post an example link so someone can check, or you can examine the server response headers yourself using the Web Console.
The workarounds are the InlineDisposition and Force Content-Type add-ons, respectively.
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/inlinedisposition/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/force-content-type/
Also note that for security reasons, executable files (.exe, .msi) can't be launched automatically.