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astraldenizen
New member
Status: Delivered

This feature was great, and one of the reasons why I stayed with Firefox when I tried it. From stopping accidental downloads to avoiding malware, being able to choose to keep a download instead of automatically putting it on my device was really helpful, so I suggest adding a toggle(alongside the options for individual files) to choose between asking for all files or auto-downloading. I'd greatly appreciate this change.

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Status changed to: In review
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hey all,

Here with another exciting update…

This idea has been upgraded to "In review" which means it will be brought to our internal teams for review—learn more about The Idea Journey. As soon as we have another update on its status, we’ll let you know right here in the comment section.

Stay tuned 😃

-The Community Team

chen_zhe_
New member

I hope I can get(download) images in pdfs directly while browsing.

Status changed to: In development
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Great news!

Our teams have reviewed this idea (and the supporting comments) and the feature is now "In development."

A product manager will add a comment here shortly with more info.

-The Community Team

willpom
New member

PDF download

User can set how PDFs are handled by Firefox in about:config - whether to open in Firefox, save etc.

All well and good. But it ignores what instructions the website gives where as no other browser I've tested on does.

I have PDFs on my site that I prefer to set as <a href=............. download>..... so the save box is the first first option. Firefox ignores this, no other browser does. Instead it opens the PDF in that tab.
I can set target="_blank" with download so it at least opens in a new tab for firefox; but then creates blank new tabs for downloads in other browsers. Why should I have to create a work around for intended behaviour just because of Firefox?

This is a recent regression IMO and a case of Firefox trying to micromanage how content is used. Please resolve.

Alessandro_B
New member

Please revert the file download behavior as it was before v. 98. It was just perfect!
Let us choose what to do with files: view them (please use the /tmp folder and don't clutter "Download") or download them *only* to the chosen location.
The new Chrome-inspired download management is a P.I.T.A., please ditch it as soon as possible!!!

P.S.
v. 99: "Always ask you where to save files" selected in "Settings" is not honored as you might expect. Setting every single Content Type to "Always ask" doesn't work as well.

AZ
New member

I stopped using Firefox believing that this was a bug. Sadly, I won't come back to Firefox until this is fixed, as I simply do not have the time to clean my downloads folder every other day. Also, the downloads folder contains genuine files that I want to keep there and don't want to lose them by accidentally deleting them in a rush. This 'feature' has messed up my computer and my workflow. Bye for now, Firefox.

Oscar
Strollin' around

While we wait for a real fix (ie: revert to pre 98 behavior):

You can revert to the old ways by setting:

browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel = false

in "about:config".

(if they get rid of that one... I'll leave Firefox for good, and I've being using it since Phoenix days).

Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Another update: the product team has informed us that this will be fixed in an upcoming release (102). Please feel free to follow along on Bugzilla for more info or stay tuned here 😃

reikoneko
Strollin' around

Could there be a little more explanation in the alert box how Firefox has detected malware in a file? I got the alert when downloading the documentation for Kali Linux from their gitlab site, and there is nothing in the file tree but markdown, plaintext, and {png,jpg,gif} image files

Venetia
Employee
Employee

Thank you everyone for your feedback!

We have good news! We have addressed this issue and you'll see it in our next release (Fx101) which comes out next week (May 31st).