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does not download where i tell it

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i want to download a photo i choice a file where i want to save it no problem now i pic another photo i want to download and i want to save it in the same file ....but firefox dumps it where it wants...it should keep saving in the file i chose until i change the location

i want to download a photo i choice a file where i want to save it no problem now i pic another photo i want to download and i want to save it in the same file ....but firefox dumps it where it wants...it should keep saving in the file i chose until i change the location

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Hi skipper49er,


You should look at the article How to fix preferences that won't save. There might be an issue writing to the pref.js file.


Hopefully this helps!

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The Startup, home page, tabs, and download settings has a Downloads setting, "always ask me where to save files" which I gather you have selected, since you said, i want to download a photo i choice a file where i want to save it no problem.

You then say, i pic another photo i want to download and i want to save it in the same file ....but firefox dumps it where it wants...it should keep saving in the file i chose until i change the location

If your problem is that Firefox doesn't always start in the same place where you last saved a file, that's because Firefox now remembers the last download directory on a site-by-site basis (ref.1). There was a request to offer a preference to turn off this feature, which will be available in Firefox 11 (ref.2)

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Current Firefox versions remember the download directory based upon the URL, so if the URL changes then the default folder may be chosen if there hasn't been selected a download folder before for that server.