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diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index 1bc3045..fea02fd 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -548,6 +548,17 @@ one and something else in another before choosing an action. - **Ask every time** opens a Save As dialog per file, which is right for one file and wrong for a selection of twenty. +With no folder chosen, automatic still does not put a dialog in your way: the file +goes to the browser's own download folder. The exception is a download over 512 MB, +which cannot be held in memory to get there — that one asks where to put it, and +choosing a folder in Settings stops it asking again. + +A finished download offers **Open** in the transfers widget when it went into a +folder you granted: the file is handed to a new tab and the browser decides what +to do with it. That is the whole of what a web page can do here — it cannot start +a desktop application, and it cannot show you a file manager. No browser offers an +API for either, deliberately. + A web page cannot be given a filesystem path, and cannot read one either: there is no `~/Downloads` to configure, on any operating system, and nothing changes here on Windows for the same reason. What a browser grants is access to a folder |