I'm tired of right-clicking. Can I do a "Save Link As" by holding a keyboard button and clicking the link?
16 Answers
You can restore the old Alt-click "Save Link As" functionality in Firefox:
Open a new tab in Firefox. In the Firefox address space, type:
about:config
Click the "I'll be careful, I promise" prompt. Type
browser.altClickSave
in the Search space. Double-click on the browser.altClickSave line to change the value from false to true. Close the about:config tab.
Now when you Alt-click on a valid download link it will open the Save As explorer screen. All you need to do is set the correct location and press Enter. Once you set the download location, if you are downloading a lot of files into the same location, all you need to do is press enter. This will greatly speed up your download process.
I did the above process in Windows 7. It should also work in Ubuntu.
4The other answers are correct for Firefox.
For Chrome it's even easier:
Option+Click (Windows: Alt+Click) saves the link-target to the download folder.
7On Linux due to the fact that Alt+Click is captured by X11 to manipulate window position to have this working you need quickly: - Press LMB (and keep pressed) - Press left Alt key (and keep pressed) - Release LMB
The easiest solution for firefox:
K + Right Click
Press K and click with you right mouse button on the link. Release all buttons before the "Download"-Dialog opens up or you will get some K's as the filename.
I can't provide a source as this seems to be an undocumented feature. (Can't see it mentioned here atleast).
1Save Linked Page (when a link is selected) (for firefox):
On Windows : Shift+Enter
On Mac : Option+Enter
On Linux : Shift+Enter
1One solution I found to this, is if you click on the link and open it, you can use
ctrl+s to save it. It is still slow though.
