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Don't resume downloads upon crash

jamie123help
jamie123help
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Hi,

I am running firefox from a windows batch script which downloads a file and after a specified time kills firefox using 'taskkill /F /im firefox.exe /T'.

Upon being killed, when I restart firefox from the script again, I do not want it to resume the download which is had been downloading before. I am running the following settings:

browser.download.manager.quitBehavior 2 browser.sessionstore.resumt_from_crash false.

Even though I have these settings, I seem to have no effect of these. The download automatically resumes each time. Am I missing something here??

Thanks!

Hi, I am running firefox from a windows batch script which downloads a file and after a specified time kills firefox using 'taskkill /F /im firefox.exe /T'. Upon being killed, when I restart firefox from the script again, I do not want it to resume the download which is had been downloading before. I am running the following settings: browser.download.manager.quitBehavior 2 browser.sessionstore.resumt_from_crash false. Even though I have these settings, I seem to have no effect of these. The download automatically resumes each time. Am I missing something here?? Thanks!

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cor-el
cor-el
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Maybe consider to start Firefox in Private Browsing mode.

jamie123help
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Thanks. Will try that and see what happens.