I can't remember for sure the usecase or which specific browser, but I remember sometime in the 90s (whatever IE W95 or 98 had? Possible Netscape?) having to create a barebone .html with just the href and opening that to have a link to right click.

I think it actually was specifically to save files, before content types, and saving binaries as raw text was unreliable at best.

I didn't expect the same to be true 20 years later.