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== Field design == | == Field design == | ||
As others have commented, for downloads and pages you save you need to remember three | As others have commented, for downloads and pages you save you need to remember three URLs and some other info: | ||
* the page where you downloaded | * the page you were viewing where you downloaded | ||
* the URL you downloaded | * the URL you downloaded or "Save link as" | ||
* the local file:// URL to which you saved) | ** the size and last-modified date of the URL you downloaded | ||
* the local file:// URL to which you saved) | |||
Tools > Downloads remembers and exposes all of these in its context menu as Go to Download page, Copy Download Link. But Places does not. | Tools > Downloads remembers and exposes all of these in its context menu as Go to Download page, Copy Download Link. But Places does not. | ||
When you | When you File > Save a Web page, do "the page where you downloaded" and "the URL you downloaded" become the same thing? The former could be generalized to "the referring page", which might be nice for Places to show a breadcrumb of how you wound up at some page, but it's more abstract and less meaningful for a download. | ||
This info is shared between two web URLs and a local file. I think it should show up in all three in Places: | This info is shared between two web URLs and a local file. I think it should show up in all three in Places: | ||