In windows before I moved to Linux a long time ago,
I used to be able to drag and drop website links directly from the browser to any drive, including a thumb drive.
When I do this on Debian 13.3 Trixie using KDE Plasma 6.3.6and KWin,
using any browser, but my main browser is Firefox.
I cannot do this.
For some odd reason, it actually does not save it as a website link.
And when you double-click on it, it opens the browser but shows website code instead of the website itself.
The extension created when dragging the web address from the browser to the drive,
by clicking AND holding the lock of the website and dragging it to the hard drive,
it gets the “So-Called“ weblink a (.desktop) extension.
Again, I can do this without any problems whatsoever in windows,
But for some odd reason I cannot do this in Linux.
This is frustrating, because many times I like to save extremely important website links (important to me) directly onto the drive I choose to save it to.
It’s like I am not actually saving a website link to the drive, but rather some strange file that is somehow broken and either doesn’t work or is just fractured for some reason.
Maybe it’s an internal security thing just on Linux that I don’t know about.
Because that’s how Linux is, or it’s just this distribution or its Either Plasma or KWin or even Wayland itself.
I don’t know.
Maybe I am doing something wrong? I don’t know.
I just hope someone important that codes for any of the above mentioned can fix this.
When I double-click on this .desktop file in Dolphin, the link opens correctly in my default browser. I don’t get “website code instead of the website itself”. So for me it functions perfectly as a web link - I wonder what the difference in our setups is.
I’m on:
Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.5-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
I don’t want to save massive amounts of files and data for the website.
I appreciate it very much for this suggestion, but this doesn’t solve the problem itself.
Which is to save website links directly from the browser to a hard drive of choice.
Which takes up far less space to do.
Thank you for the welcome
The only options I get is, (download here) and (link here) and of course (cancel) which is the exit selection.
I do not get move, copy or (add icon) options.
