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How do you disable download manager? It's very annoying.

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bucarays
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Every time something is downloaded the manager pops up, it's very annoying how do I disable it?

Every time something is downloaded the manager pops up, it's very annoying how do I disable it?

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Efreak101
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Download the DownloadStatusbar extension. Learn more about it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/download-statusbar/

bucarays
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Thank you very much!

Efreak101
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No problem. Glad I could help:) If you found that my answer was a solution, please mark it as such. Thanks...

cor-el
cor-el
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See also the settings here:
Tools > Options > General : Downloads 

"Show the Download window when downloading a file"
"Close it when all downloads are finished"

Modified by cor-el