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Can't download anything

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Karlitos
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Firefox doesn't save anything i download. It shows the screen with the progress, but after it's done downloading it doesn't show up anywhere, even if i right click in the download screen, it doesn't let me open it.

Firefox doesn't save anything i download. It shows the screen with the progress, but after it's done downloading it doesn't show up anywhere, even if i right click in the download screen, it doesn't let me open it.

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cor-el
cor-el
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It is possible that your anti-virus software is corrupting the downloaded files or otherwise interfering with downloading files by Firefox.
Try to disable the real-time (live) scanning of files in your anti-virus software temporarily to see if that makes downloading work.

See "Disable virus scanning in Firefox preferences - Windows"