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How do I get downloads from a private window to appear in the download window?

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  • ตอบกลับล่าสุดโดย ideato

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I have followed the advice given in <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/955101#answer-422874> to "set the browser.download.useToolkitUI preference to true" to revert to the old downloads window, but downloads from a private window are not appearing in the downloads window whilst it is open.

I have followed the advice given in <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/955101#answer-422874> to "set the browser.download.useToolkitUI preference to true" to revert to the old downloads window, but downloads from a private window are not appearing in the downloads window whilst it is open.

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Hello, if you download something and then close the private browsing, you are not able to see the download in the download window(in normal mode), see: What does Private Browsing not save?

you can't see your downloads in private mode ?

thank you

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Yes ideato, the problem is that I can't see my downloads in private mode.

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Check if you have the browser.download.manager.retention in about:config page to 2.

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Yes, it is set to 2 (default).

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with closed firefox(from file>exit) go to Profile folder - Firefox and delete the downloads.sqlite file (and if exist the downloads.rdf).

thanks

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just curious .... what are you trying to achieve by downloading files while in a private browsing window? After all, the key feature of private browsing is to not "leave tracks" of what you were doing while in private browsing, and downloading / saving files kinda conflicts with that feature - doesn't it?

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ideato: Deleting downloads.sqlite did not help.

In retesting after trying this I noticed that the downloads window does open when I save a file from a private browsing window, but is blank. In previous tests it had already been open.

the-edmeister: That depends what you do with the downloaded files and where you save them.

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Hello, can you see your downloads if you write about:downloads in Location/address bar ?

thanks