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oxyoxyoxy
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Status: New idea

Can we have a setting that automatically sorts downloads into folders depending on conditions like MIME type or file extension

The rules can be like

image/* D/Download/Pictures
application/x-bittorrent D/Download/Torrents
video/* D/Download/Videos
application/zip D/Download/Compressed
application/x-msdownload D/Download/Programs

instead of the traditional setting on every browser we have right now which is 

Downloads
Save files to ______________
[ ] Always ask you where to save files 

 

This way we dont have to rely on other addons that make you do extra steps like right clicking the item, opening the context menu, and picking a folder to save it in.
With Mozilla supporting this feature, its just normal download on the browser and let it sort the downloaded item after

This is especially useful for downloads from sites like mega, gofile, etc. For example, if i download something from their sites, the browser can already tell what the item is based on the mime type, so it knows how to sort it without needing me to do anything. 
Theres also already an extension to download images without all the right clicking actions, so it's even better if the browser also knows where the files should go to

 

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Jon
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Lovelymafia
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oxyoxyoxy
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@Lovelymafia thanks, it looks like what i want but i cant get it to work, do you have a working example for the automated one?

i have this
fileext: \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|bmp|webp|tiff|svg)$
into: Pictures

my default download directory is D:\Downloads
tested the regex, its perfect

downloaded image using Double-click Image Downloader extension, but the image(webp) still went into Downloads folder instead, although the extension did show it intercepted the download as shown in the "Last download" section
i have also tried D:\Downloads\Pictures as the path, nothing worked
or do i have to use their context menu to download so it will automatically move the files for me?