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


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


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




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