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:
You might also want to consider installing the Download Statusbar plugin for Firefox.
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.
Thanks for the tip – I love my FF too but to have everything downloaded to my desktop almost drove me crazy.
this download really annoting me some time, always need to close it or clear it
FF always drove me nutz with this. I never looked for a solution until now. Thanks!