Reviews for Bypass Forced Download
Bypass Forced Download by Lukas Mai
Review by thuerrsch
Rated 3 out of 5
by thuerrsch, 7 years agoFirefox's handling of the "content-disposition: attachment" header can be quite confusing, to put it mildly. There's a bug report about this that's nine (!) years old (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453455) and that's still open and unassigned.
The Inline Disposition 2 extension used to fix this quite nicely, but with Firefox Quantum that's no longer an option. Since upgrading to Firefox 57 I've tried a couple of WebExtensions to get rid of those unnerving "Always do this from now on (haha, just kidding, still enjoying your Chinese water torture?)" messages, but none of those really worked for me, including this one.
So what I wrote earlier about the "Display inline" extension is also mostly true for "Bypass Forced Download": Nicely done with a simple interface and very well-documented, but it doesn't seem to work everywhere. For example the .torrent files on http://hdreactor.info/ are still delivered as attachments with this extension active. Lukas, maybe you want to have look at this issue? I'd file a bug report but you don't seem to have a github or similar site.
EDIT: I've now replaced this extension with Header Editor (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/header-editor/), a more generalized extension where I could quite easily define a rule to ignore those those pesky Content-Disposition: attachment headers on any website, including the one mentioned above.
The Inline Disposition 2 extension used to fix this quite nicely, but with Firefox Quantum that's no longer an option. Since upgrading to Firefox 57 I've tried a couple of WebExtensions to get rid of those unnerving "Always do this from now on (haha, just kidding, still enjoying your Chinese water torture?)" messages, but none of those really worked for me, including this one.
So what I wrote earlier about the "Display inline" extension is also mostly true for "Bypass Forced Download": Nicely done with a simple interface and very well-documented, but it doesn't seem to work everywhere. For example the .torrent files on http://hdreactor.info/ are still delivered as attachments with this extension active. Lukas, maybe you want to have look at this issue? I'd file a bug report but you don't seem to have a github or similar site.
EDIT: I've now replaced this extension with Header Editor (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/header-editor/), a more generalized extension where I could quite easily define a rule to ignore those those pesky Content-Disposition: attachment headers on any website, including the one mentioned above.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoI can't reproduce the issue. The torrent files on hdreactor.info are served as application/x-bittorrent. I was able to set a program to "always open with" in Firefox, and then clicking the "torrent file" link executed the program automatically (no extra dialogs). If it had been treated as an attachment, I would've gotten a "save as" dialog.
37 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by 远离中共邪教快退出党团队, 12 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by smishe, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17872558, 2 years agoDoesn't work at all. Will not even activate on the NY times site.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sharad Jain, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Daniil, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17233154, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Daniel Veditz, 4 years agoDisabling the forced download for user-uploaded content creates a security vulnerability for users of this extension. If the content can run scripts--or even just has clickable links--it could steal or delete all your data on that site.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14099140, 4 years ago
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- Rated 3 out of 5by Larma, 4 years agoDoesn't work for google drive, blacklisting it won't work either... Otherwise good work
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12564382, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by bobicez, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hmijail, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rico Liebscher, 5 years ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 5837552, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mozilla-User, 6 years agoHow to configure the download via the browser on the site xhamster.com? **.cdn13.com not work.
Firefox 65.0.2 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14589368, 6 years ago