Bypass Forced Download by Lukas Mai
Remove "Content-Disposition: attachment"
You'll need Firefox to use this extension
Extension Metadata
About this extension
Some websites force users to download/save certain files, even if Firefox knows how to handle them (e.g. by displaying them directly (HTML, PDF, ...) or by opening them in another program). This add-on completely disables this functionality; i.e. if Firefox knows what to do with a file, it will do it, and all download requests are ignored. (You can still explicitly save files by right-clicking on a link and choosing "Save Link As..." or by using "Save Page" in the Firefox menu.)
Technical details:
A website can force a download by setting the
It is possible to selectively disable this add-on on some sites by editing the add-on settings in the add-on manager (
The default whitelist is
Technical details:
A website can force a download by setting the
Content-Disposition: attachment
header. This add-on intercepts such headers and rewrites them to Content-Disposition: inline
, restoring the default behavior.It is possible to selectively disable this add-on on some sites by editing the add-on settings in the add-on manager (
about:addons
). The values should be a list of space separated host names (*
, **
, and ?
are supported as wildcards). The patterns are matched against the host a download is coming from. This add-on doesn't tamper with downloads if the host name doesn't match a whitelist pattern ("hosts to run on") or if the host name matches a blacklist pattern ("except for").?
matches a single non-dot (.
) character. *
matches 0 or more non-dot characters. **
matches 0 or more characters (including dots). For example, the pattern *.example.com
matches foo.example.com
but does not match foo.bar.example.com
, whereas **.example.com
matches both.The default whitelist is
**
(bypass forced downloads everywhere). (The default blacklist is subject to change but currently includes some soundcloud and mediafire hosts because you probably do want to start a download if you click on a "download" button on those sites.)Developer comments
Issues with this add-on can be reported at https://github.com/mauke/bypass-forced-download/issues.
Rate your experience
PermissionsLearn more
This add-on needs to:
- Access your data for all websites
More information
- Version
- 0.2.1resigned1
- Size
- 10.1 KB
- Last updated
- 7 months ago (Apr 25, 2024)
- Related Categories
- License
- Mozilla Public License 2.0
- Version History
Add to collection
More extensions by Lukas Mai
- There are no ratings yet
- There are no ratings yet
- There are no ratings yet
- There are no ratings yet
- There are no ratings yet
- There are no ratings yet