Hello everyone, I'm trying to download "stuff" using a bash script and firefox but the bash script doesn't work.Basically when the "Open with" dialog window from firefox appears I tell it to open that with a bash script that is saved on one of my partitions and it should have started a terminal in a designated folder with wget starting the download for the specific file in that folder; instead the download starts with the firefox download manager and the file gets downloaded in the /temp folder.The bash scripts looks like this:
1. #!/bin/sh

cd /some/folder/
gnome-terminal --tab --hide-menubar --title=wget -x wget -nc $1

2. #!/bin/sh

cd /some/folder/
gnome-terminal --tab --command="wget -nc $1"

3. #!/bin/sh

cd /home/ubuntu/Desktop
exec xterm -e wget --directory-prefix="/some/folder/" $@

Additional notes: I've put sudo in front of gnome-terminal and in front of wget but with no success of working also all of the scripts have full permissions and are made executables.
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong or how can I achieve what I want to do ( download files with wget in a terminal window and the new downloads when I click for another file to go in another tab of that same terminal window ).

Why the complication?
Personally I'd just
I may even use curl, piping to sed awk or whatever

What describe is stupidly simple, I'm lost on what you need.

Hi Firerat, it's not complication but simplicity, Ex:instead of pasting links from the web for some random file (which is actually "mental") why not tell firefox to open with a bash script (that downloads the file) and to remember that option "Do this automatically for ...." and that way you don't have to paste a link in the terminal window.Also I think you misunderstood what I wanted: to download files not a webpage or site, thanks anyway.

Open with will save the file to a temp directory and then open that file using that application. I don't know if the built in download manager can be changed.

Thanks for the info michaelk.

If you simply want to save a file, do not complicate it

wget or curl will do the job just fine
Wget being the easiest solution