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How to save an SVG file without opening it in a browser tab first?

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lallulli
lallulli
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Sometimes I have to download very large SVG files. These files are generated dinamically by a web server, when I select some options in a web form. Thus, there is no link to click: an action on the web page causes Firefox to spawn a new tab and try to open the SVG file inside it. The file can be very large, and Firefox can get stuck in trying to display it, before I can right-click on the image and select "save as" to get the file I'm interested in.

I would like that, upon requesting an SVG web resource, Firefox ask me how I want to deal with the resource: displaying it online, opening with an external application, or saving it - exactly in the same fashion as with PDF files.

Thank you!

Sometimes I have to download very large SVG files. These files are generated dinamically by a web server, when I select some options in a web form. Thus, there is no link to click: an action on the web page causes Firefox to spawn a new tab and try to open the SVG file inside it. The file can be very large, and Firefox can get stuck in trying to display it, before I can right-click on the image and select "save as" to get the file I'm interested in. I would like that, upon requesting an SVG web resource, Firefox ask me how I want to deal with the resource: displaying it online, opening with an external application, or saving it - exactly in the same fashion as with PDF files. Thank you!

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guigs
guigs
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Hi lallulli, You can control or add a preference as what to do with an svg file in the Applications section of preferences:

longsonr
longsonr
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If you want to see an SVG file as text use the view-source protocol e.g. view-source:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/SVG_example7.svg

Support for SVG files is built in, you can't set it using the Applications sction of preferences

cor-el
cor-el
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The only way to get Firefox to offer to save the SVG image would be to force a content type that Firefox doesn't recognize as supported natively.