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How to disable the annoying download prompt window

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Hi. I just switched from Brave to Firefox and I am quite annoyed with the "What should Firefox do with this file?" dialog that appears every time you want to download something.

Today I was trying to download a bunch of assets, 223 to be exact. As you can probably guess it is a nightmare having to confirm the dialog for every single download.

It seems that Firefox is the only web browser these days that forces the user to confirm this every time.

If I click on a download I want to download the download. Why am I being asked about this?

At least there should be some way to change this setting.

If not, I am going straight back to Brave as this is a nightmare for multiple downloads...

Hi. I just switched from Brave to Firefox and I am quite annoyed with the "''What should Firefox do with this file?''" dialog that appears every time you want to download something. Today I was trying to download a bunch of assets, 223 to be exact. As you can probably guess it is a nightmare having to confirm the dialog for every single download. It seems that Firefox is the only web browser these days that forces the user to confirm this every time. If I click on a download I want to download the download. Why am I being asked about this? At least there should be some way to change this setting. If not, I am going straight back to Brave as this is a nightmare for multiple downloads...
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Hello,

Firefox does this for multiple reasons; one being space on your device. If you only are downloading a file to see it or run it, it will be stored in temporary storage (deleted when you close Firefox) instead of a downloads folder.

If you want to configure this, go to about:preferences and scroll down to applications. Here you can change the action Firefox takes when prompted, via a download or a URI scheme handler.

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andmagdo said
Firefox does this for multiple reasons; one being space on your device.

Yeah.. well the saving space on the hard drive-argument gets a little old these days. I mean, who has a storage problem on their computer these days? What is this, like 1998? Most computers have a minimum of 200 GB+ hard drive/ssd.

Forcing the user to decide if the user wants to save space each and every time the user wants to download something seems a lot more tedious than doing some manual deleting once storage is a problem. This sounds like an IE6 type of problem. Apparently Google Chrome, with a 70%+ market share does not have this problem. I wonder why... Perhaps because it's not 1996 anymore?