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convroom
Making moves
Status: In development

For the love of God please revert this feature back to how it was prior to ver 98 release. This auto save nonsense is garbage. I use this browser for work, across a dozen machines, and the main reason I use Firefox was for how it functioned when opening/downloading files. Now that it's auto saving it breaks my processes for my job. I need it to prompt to open or save when I click on files. AUto saving is causing additional steps in my work processes, I am looking at alternative browsers now. Unless you can put this back the way it was I will discontinue usage.

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LtDan0341
New member

What are you trying to solve? A problem that didn't exist? Allow me to have the option, put the option back.

robnsac1
New member

Rob Stoinoff

I am just a longstanding but older user of Firefox web browser.  In fact an early adopter.  I changed to Firefox years ago because the previous browser and its owners made a product that was clunky and hard to use.  Firefox was wonderful.  Has success suddenly made you autocrats? When I suddenly started encountering this auto-save "feature" I thought it was my fault that I had accidently pressed a wrong button somewhere.  It was the last thing on my mind that Firefox would do something so counter intuitive.  Imagine my surprise and shock when I just found out it is a "FEATURE". It has ruined my ability to work as rapidly as before.  At my age (78), time is precious.  The suggestions of these loyal users are great.  If some people love this feature, then give them that option.  For all the rest of us who are tangled with unnecessary keystrokes and steps, please use your former programming in the previous version to give us the option to view or save.

Thank you and I hope you fine programmers are listening.

 

 

 

andzia
Strollin' around

I just wanted to say - those changes to the way that FF deals with file downloads are really bad, please - leave it as it was earlier. I understand that some users may not be aware of what TEMP is, and working on files saved in this location may lead them to loosing their data/work, but there is huge group of users like me, who are aware of what they do. And dialog asking me what to do with each file that I wanted do download was great thing. Even for the same type of file, each time decision could be different - sometimes I wanted file to be saved, sometimes  I just wanted to see or print data in file, but without saving it in default location.

 

PLEASE... undo those changes. Or at least - give users possibility to choose, which version they want. And DON'T remove browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel or you will see larg group of FF users switching to alternative browser.

andzia
Strollin' around

I just wanted to say - those changes to the way that FF deals with file downloads are really bad, please - leave it as it was earlier. I understand that some users may not be aware of what TEMP is, and working on files saved in this location may lead them to loosing their data/work, but there is huge group of users like me, who are aware of what they do. And dialog asking me what to do with each file that I wanted do download was great thing. Even for the same type of file, each time decision could be different - sometimes I wanted file to be saved, sometimes  I just wanted to see or print data in file, but without saving it in default location.

 

PLEASE... undo those changes. Or at least - give users possibility to choose, which version they want. And DON'T remove browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel or you will see larg group of FF users switching to alternative browser.

UliBär
Making moves

Yes, now Firefox clutters the download folder with tons of unwanted temporary stuff, which one only wanted to look at for a moment and did not want that stuff permanently placed in the download folder.

HerbsAtRiver
New member

Terrible change. Why do ppl keep "updating" stuff, that worked fine in the first place...

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."

Please also reference the following posts for more info:

Choose how Firefox handles the files you download from the web. 

Choose to always ask to download files instead of auto-downloading. 

-The Community Team

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 😃

Aftermath
Making moves

@Jonshouldn't you change this to "done"?