In the old download manager, pasting a URL causes Firefox to download a URL. This shortcut is useful because it's the one of the only ways to make Firefox start a download immediately rather than loading and viewing the URL. This is no longer possible in the new downloads panel UI.

loss of functionality

Checkpointing work here for the night. I still have a few focus issues to work out, but this basically works.

Here's my first run at this.

Comment on attachment 680158 [details] [diff] [review] Patch v1 Review of attachment 680158 [details] [diff] [review]: ----------------------------------------------------------------- ::: browser/components/downloads/content/downloads.js @@ +308,5 @@ > +#else > + aEvent.ctrlKey; > +#endif > + > + if (pasting) { invert this and early return, so less indentation. @@ +330,5 @@ > + if (!url) { > + return; > + } > + > + let uri = Services.io.newURI(url, null, null); nit: lots of empty space above, maybe compact code a bit

Thanks for the r+! Requested changes made.

Landed on mozilla-inbound: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/242334181a9d

Verified as fixed on the latest Nightly - pasting a URL in the downloads panel starts the download. Verified on Ubuntu 12.10, Mac OS X 10.7 and Windows 7: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121203 Firefox/20.0 Build ID: 20121203030801 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121203 Firefox/20.0 Build ID: 20121203030801 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121202 Firefox/20.0 Build ID: 20121202030723