Download attribute not working in Firefox but working in chrome

Question

This fiddle is not working in firefox but working in chrome.

I have tried using this :

Click on the w3schools logo to download the image:

Note: The download attribute is not supported in IE, Safari or Opera version 12 (and earlier).

Link to fiddle : JsFiddle

No link to the jsFiddle – TheLifeOfSteve May 25 '15 at 18:39 — TheLifeOfSteve, May 25 '15 at 18:39
https://jsfiddle.net/fztnwnbL/ - JsFiddle Lnk – user3727204 May 25 '15 at 18:39 — user3727204, May 25 '15 at 18:39
Anyway, what exactly are you asking? – Sebastian Simon May 25 '15 at 18:44 — Sebastian Simon, May 25 '15 at 18:44
Don't use absolute urls in your code. – digwig May 25 '15 at 19:24 — digwig, May 25 '15 at 19:24

HadesDX · Answer 1 · 2015-05-25T19:09:20.603

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first of all in firefox, you cant mark an a element to download from another domain so an a like this wont work

    <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/images/myw3schoolsimage.jpg" download>

but this other will work on firefox

    <a href="img/book.png" download>

Firefox need to be from the same domain, so a relative url, will work fine.

:) goog luck

edited May 25 '15 at 19:09

answered May 25 '15 at 19:03

HadesDX

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note that it should work on remote urls in FF if the server emits CORS headers. – dandavis May 25 '15 at 19:37
@dandavis I've added CORS headers, with * for origin, and I can see them coming back to the browser, but it has made no difference. – Antony Nov 21 '17 at 21:40
Searching around some more, found a confirmation that this is not possible with FF: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28318017/html5-download-attribute-not-working-when-downloading-from-another-server-even – Antony Nov 21 '17 at 21:46
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I just tested it, and it seems to be broken now in Firefox. – Jan-Luca Klees Apr 05 '22 at 11:14

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