User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; fr; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; fr; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1 If the clipboard contains a recognizable URL (ie starts with http:// or https:// or ftp://) then it'd be nice if pasting into the download manager started the download of that file. This is default behavior in Safari and Omniweb. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Copy a valid URL into the clipboard. 2. Open the Download Manager. 3. Paste the URL. Actual Results: Nothing happens. Expected Results: Start the download from the pasted URL. Currently I have made an extension _almost_ working. But it only handles Ctrl/Command+V event, not middleclick (on Linux). BTW, there is a similar bug but it seems Camino-centric,: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328665 That's why a created a new bug for the toolkit.

Thomas, can you add your extension (as an attachment) to take a look at how it works?

Here is the extension. Right now, it's not completely functional. I need to: -find how to download in the default download folder (currently it saves the file in the cache folder) -put a real name to the downloaded file, currently it's a random name...

While this seems fine for an add-on to do, this isn't something we'll want in the core product. The download manager doesn't need to have everything and the kitchen sink.

We ended up doing this!