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After 95.0 Browser Update I can't set download file automatic option

Daryl D. Vorpahl
Daryl D. Vorpahl
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Before the 95.0 Firefox Browser update, all files would download to a location on my harddrive. The files can still be downloaded to my harddrive, but I can't set the option to automaticallly download files to my harddrive. Each time I download a file it wants to open the file and I must click save file. But the default that tells me if I want to automatically do an action isn't there. I can't set the browser to automatically save files.

Can you help?

Before the 95.0 Firefox Browser update, all files would download to a location on my harddrive. The files can still be downloaded to my harddrive, but I can't set the option to automaticallly download files to my harddrive. Each time I download a file it wants to open the file and I must click save file. But the default that tells me if I want to automatically do an action isn't there. I can't set the browser to automatically save files. Can you help?

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Terry
Terry
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You should be able to set that for each file type on the General page of Settings, under the heading Applications.

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Are you setting the preferred handling to "Save File"? This article for PDFs describes where that would be set: View PDF files using Firefox’s built-in viewer.

Do you use any add-ons related to downloads which could be overriding the built-in behavior?