Downloading QuickTime Files from Web Page

Thanks Francine, your helpful tip seems to work well in Safari, which has the Activity option in the Window menu you mentioned.... but I mostly use Firefox, which doesn't have that option. However, I did a little experimenting in Firefox just now, and discovered I can download files from a directory page containing the file names (as opposed to the old way of using the name as a link to open the QT player window) — Hold the Option key and click once on the link/file name in the directory, a contectual menu opens with the "option" (appropriately enough) to download the file. Cool! So it's not the same method, but definitely a workaround, as long as there's a directory page to work from. Hope this helps anyone else.

Addendum: The Option/Click contectual menu method should actually work on any link that opens a Quicktime Player window.

There have definitely been some odd little changes in recent system updates. Not to derail my own thread, but I found I can't just drag/poof items from the Finder window sidebar any more. Fortunately I found out I need to hold Command while dragging the items I want to poof, but that's a new thing, in the previous system you just dragged them off without any helper key. So it's got to be something similar with this QT save issue. Is there some document on the Apple site that itemizes all these funny little changes in Snow Leopard updates?

Don't know if you're familiar with soundcloud.com, but as an active musician I've found that to be the most streamlined way to share music online. Basic membership is free, they have their own download engine, been using them for about a year and a half now and I love it. Might suggest that to your friend if he hasn't already heard of it.

And there I go derailing my own thread again....

That was the downward arrow I was referring to that had always worked in the past. Now the menu doesn't appear, regardless of where I click on the player or whether I'm holding the control key.