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Firefox Download Box, Controlling Your Annoying Friend.
A majority of my readers use Firefox to browse the web. I myself happen to be a big fan of Firefox, as some of my previous posts have indicated. Always striving for efficiency, I have made a few tweaks to lower my frustration and increase the enjoyment of my web browsing experience. Amongst these changes, one of the first things I do on a new install is to change the way the download dialog (ctrl+j) behaves.
To clarify, I don’t like the downloads box to pop-up when I start a download and I want to choose where to save my file. To achieve this, I go to Firefox options:
and select your options as noted below:
To access the infamous download box in the future, use the ctrl+j hotkey combination:
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about 2 years ago
You might also want to consider installing the Download Statusbar plugin for Firefox.
about 2 years ago
I used to use download statusbar but (when I used it) it didn’t pay attention to the downloads dialog it hides but rather lets the files build up and cause a memory problem for Firefox after some time.
about 2 years ago
Thanks for the tip – I love my FF too but to have everything downloaded to my desktop almost drove me crazy.
about 2 years ago
this download really annoting me some time, always need to close it or clear it
about 2 years ago
FF always drove me nutz with this. I never looked for a solution until now. Thanks!