no one liked this before, why do you keep doing it
"And now, every time you start a download, Firefox will automatically bring up the Downloads panel by default. This means you’ll experience minimal interruptions and easily find your downloaded files. Plus, to avoid having to close it several times, the panel won't show if there are multiple downloads in progress."
in all actuality, this is not a minimal interruption, this is a massive interruption. if i want to see my download ill open the download toolbar button! how do you stop this annoying popup? do i have to go back to an older version? is there an option to turn this off? there are tons of articles all the way back to 2011 on how to turn this off, but they dont apply to the newest version.
Chosen solution
Enter about:config in the URL bar and set browser.download.alwaysOpenPanel = false.
WARNING: Changing preferences through this interface not officially supported Hidden settings edited using the about:config tool are explicitly not supported, which means that Mozilla makes no guarantees they will be supported in the future, or that Mozilla will fix them if they break. Mozilla does not test these preferences, and will not in the future. That includes security and performance testing which these preferences may affect.
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Chosen Solution
Enter about:config in the URL bar and set browser.download.alwaysOpenPanel = false.
WARNING: Changing preferences through this interface not officially supported Hidden settings edited using the about:config tool are explicitly not supported, which means that Mozilla makes no guarantees they will be supported in the future, or that Mozilla will fix them if they break. Mozilla does not test these preferences, and will not in the future. That includes security and performance testing which these preferences may affect.
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Modified by Chris Ilias
thank you SOOOO much!!!!!! you are awesome!!
Modified by jamesvawter
Thanks, that worked to me too. To FireFox Devs Team, please add an option to disable that in settings as soon as possible.
Thanks in advance and greetings.
Modified by s1023333
When introducing new features, please *do not* enable them by default!
why would i want to see that stupid card by default? why do you guys do these sort of things? give us a button on/off
Worst idea ever, especially to make an unnecessarily intrusive behavior not just the default, but behavior that can't be defeated without executing an obscure, unsupported, hack.