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Mozilla Firefox autosave when only opening a file

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valkir_15
valkir_15
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Hi,

I've been looking everywhere to cancel the automatic download of files into the "download" folder when I ONLY need to open them for a short usage from a web page . Now I've got to manually wipe out the "download" folder on my computer... very annoying as now I sometimes don't know which files I've download and which have been put there from a Open only action. Why do I have to use another folder for my download than Firefox for temporary files???

I want to know if Firefox will go back with that stupid idea or if I need to look for another browser?

Thank you

Nicolas

Hi, I've been looking everywhere to cancel the automatic download of files into the "download" folder when I ONLY need to open them for a short usage from a web page . Now I've got to manually wipe out the "download" folder on my computer... very annoying as now I sometimes don't know which files I've download and which have been put there from a Open only action. Why do I have to use another folder for my download than Firefox for temporary files??? I want to know if Firefox will go back with that stupid idea or if I need to look for another browser? Thank you Nicolas

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Terry
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What Mozilla will do (version 102) is provide a preference in about:config.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1738574#c127

What you can do in the meantime is change Settings > General > Downloads > Save files to {your temp folder} and switch back (if you wish) to Always ask you where to save files. (Remove the blank space in the following link.)

https://www.reddit. com/r/firefox/comments/trnirr/a_work_around_for_open_with_option_for_downloads/

valkir_15
valkir_15 Fraacheigener
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Thank you for the fast reply.

Seen another post but didn't understood the process.

Hope they will go back as people says this might be a temporary fix.

Terry
Terry
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If you read the comment in the bug report, you will see there is no going back.