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pmontra 5 hours ago

That was a really long menu. I do use "Save Link As…” when the link is obviously a file to download and I don't want it in the default folder.

I think that I never used “Set Image as Desktop Background…” in all my life. That's a very narrow use case to get its own menu entry.

layer8 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Incidentally, “Save Link As…” is mislabeled, because it doesn’t save the link (which would be possible), but the resource the link points to. It still confuses me whenever I occasionally see it.

1718627440 3 hours ago | parent [-]

By that measure "Open Link in [...]" should open a text viewer showing the URL instead of retrieving the resource that links points to. I rather have the current behaviour.

layer8 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I’m not arguing for changing the behavior, but for changing the label. Safari uses “Download Linked File”, which makes much more sense.

1718627440 2 hours ago | parent [-]

And I'm arguing that this term is used in exactly that meaning everywhere and is the expected use of the word "link".

layer8 an hour ago | parent [-]

I disagree that this is standard usage. Saving a link is like saving a bookmark.

Random examples:

https://www.wikihow.com/Save-a-Link

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-save-a-link

https://superuser.com/questions/996482/how-do-i-save-a-link-...

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mwkwnzd0l4n

https://www.oreateai.com/blog/a-simple-guide-to-saving-links...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/898834