When I click a link to a file that Firefox cannot natively display, it gives me this dialog box:    I always want to save files, not open them. I want that to happen every time and for every file type, without ever having to be prompted. How do I effect this behavior?  Edit:  is a similar question but it does not have a satisfactory answer. What I want is to never see this dialog box again. I want Firefox to just save every file I try to download, whether it’s a new file type or not. The answers to the other question do not provide a way to do this—they require you to go through the dialog once for every new file type.
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In Firefox's options, you can either set that you want to be asked where to save every file, or you want it to be in place your favourite directory here, I've noticed that most of the stuff I save I put in one directory, usually something called Downloads (inspiring, isn't it?).  But FF still asks, and pops up with the download dialog. It is(!) by default in that directory, but I was wondering is there a way to avoid it alltogether. I.e., when I click on Save image or Save page as or whatever, that it directly just saves it - without asking for OK?  Anyone know how this can be accomplished?  Edit: Although I appreciate the posted answers so far, I should clarify that I'm not looking for an organizer of downloads, nor for download managers. I just need something that will minimize the number of clicks I have to make to get the file from the Internet to my disc.
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I have a small PHP system I created for myself. This system contains a few .doc and .docx file documents. I want to be able to open them directly from the browser without downloading them.  I created a link: &lt;a href="file:///c:/mysite/myfile.docx"&gt;myfile&lt;/a&gt;. But Firefox does not open the link. href="http://localhost/myfile.docx" works fine - it offers me to download the file.  Any ideas on how I can do it? Do I need to change something in the Firefox options or security settings?
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I've inherited a desktop application which has a custom .NET file chooser that is embedded in a control, but it has some issues. I'd like to replace it with a non-custom File Chooser (like the OpenFileDialog).    However, for a variety of reasons it needs to be embedded in the parent control not a popup dialog. Is there a control I'm missing, or does MS only provide the popup dialog out of the box?
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Whenever I'm trying to close a file that has been changed, I get the save file dialog    I remember that the Don't Save button used to have focus, so I could press it using Spacebar, while pressing Enter would click on Save. But now on Lion, I'm unable to find a way to press the Don't Save using keyboard only, since Tab doesn't change focus to anything, and space doesn't work either.  This is the same for all file save dialogs in the system. Is there any way I can press the Don't Save button using keyboard only?
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I am trying to sync my Firefox profile folder using Dropbox, but there are several files that Firefox changes quite frequently   Folders: Cache, OfflineCache can be excluded Files: urlclassifier3.sqlite, places.sqlite - these files are big and are changed anytime   OS: Windows 7  Does anyone know how to exclude files listed in #2 from Dropbox sync?
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Every time I try to post a question or answer, my browser pops up a confirmation dialog:  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  I need to choose "leave page" to continue. If I chose "stay on this page" and hit "submit" again, I am told that my post is a duplicate. In other words, the post was successfully submitted the first time, before the confirmation dialog.   I can confirm this by opening the page in a new tab and I can see my answer there despite being told that I haven't actually posted it. This happens on both firefox (40.0 and previous versions) and chromium (45.0.2454.85) and on all sites of the network.   Both browsers running on a 64 bit Debian. This may or may not be related to .  This is what I see in the Network tab of chromium's dev tools when submitting:    and after clicking on "leave page":    I just checked and this doesn't occur with another account on the same machine, which would suggest that it is somehow a problem on my end. Any ideas what could cause this? It can't be an extension issue since it occurs in both firefox and chromium. What would those two share that could produce this issue?
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When I try to upload an image, I'm presented with the following dialog box,    The dialog box does not allow uploading either from my computer or by posting a link.  This happens only on Chrome browser (running on Windows). Clearing cache and cookies, and restarting computer do not resolve.  Is this just my computer? Or is this a site-wide bug?  Additional info:  Clicking on 'click' to upload does nothing. Dragging an image onto dialog redirects me to the file location on my computer. Clicking 'Add picture' redirects me to http://[SE-domain].com/upload/image?https=true.  UPDATE: A Norton extension for Chrome was the source of the problem.
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When you share a Zip file in Google Drive, you land on a page to view all the files inside the zip file and to download the entire file the user has to click File → Download. I've noticed a lot of users don't get this so I actually have to tell them to click File → Download when all I really want to do is give them a link to directly download the file.
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I'm currently in the process of developing a Windows Application which produces Word Documents. In the program there is the ability to save your progress (different to the &quot;Save as a Word Document&quot; option). This option &quot;Save Current Progress&quot; saves your progress, there is no user input, except the action of clicking the button (i.e. they don't have to specify a file location). When designing the functionality for this button I researched other instances of &quot;Save&quot; buttons in programs. Most of them resemble floppy disks, and on clicking them there is no feedback (except the subtle visual cue of mouseover and click on the button itself). i.e. there is no alert window saying &quot;you have saved&quot; nor does the button change to signify a saved state. The problem is that in my application this could be confusing. In Microsoft Word (for instance) it is the most natural thing to click the save icon and know it has saved, without any positive feedback. However in my application it confuses users and they say that they &quot;don't know&quot; that what they've done has actually saved anything. The icon is different to the Word one. It resembles a hard drive with an arrow pointing down onto it.  However, surely the thought process should be the same. I'm going to change the functionality so that the icon changes to that of a tick momentarily to give positive reinforcement that the status has saved, but I'm interested as to why the two scenarios differ so much. Update As per some of the suggestions here I have created this graphic to switch states when the user saves.
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In older versions of Firefox there was an option to switch off loading of graphics. Now, in 28.0 I can no longer find it. It used to be in  [Edit] -&gt; [Preferences] -&gt; ...   Is there a simple way to avoid loading graphics in current versions of Firefox?
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In WebForms, I would normally have code like this to let the browser present a "Download File" popup with an arbitrary file type, like a PDF, and a filename:  Response.Clear() Response.ClearHeaders() ''# Send the file to the output stream Response.Buffer = True  Response.AddHeader("Content-Length", pdfData.Length.ToString()) Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename= " &amp; Server.HtmlEncode(filename))  ''# Set the output stream to the correct content type (PDF). Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"  ''# Output the file Response.BinaryWrite(pdfData)  ''# Flushing the Response to display the serialized data ''# to the client browser. Response.Flush() Response.End()   How do I accomplish the same task in ASP.NET MVC?
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On my users computers, Firefox has autoupdated to 20.0, and that's a big problem, because of the new download manager window. They cannot get used to it, they call me constantly at the intercom "hey, where are my downloads???".  If someone knows an hidden setting in the about:config that would restore the old download window, that would save my life
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How can I add an application to the Open With menu (shown after right-clicking) for a given file type, without making that file always open with that application?  In this specific instance, I'd like to the option to open an Web site location (.URL) file with TextEdit, while still defaulting to Safari.    I'm running OS 10.7.4.
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Does anyone know where Firefox is keeping the details about the bookmarks? For example, when I'm browsing the net and I see an interesting page but I don't have time to read it in that moment, I drag&amp;drop it in bookmarks toolbar.  How does Firefox know which those pages are? I'm not talking about right_click->properties. I wish to know where on my HDD those links are kept.   TY
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Is there a way to open files without changing the UI layout?  Sometimes in older files the layout will be in the old 2.4x style, which can be annoying.  One way would seem to be appending everything in, but that gets tedious with having to do it over again and again for objects, materials, textures, etc.
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Is there anything in the current Firefox similar to the Task Manager in Google Chrome? (Shift + Esc)  There is something that occasionally takes up enough CPU to make Firefox unresponsive - but with multiple windows, each with a dozen or so tabs open, trial &amp; error is going to take a while.
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A section on a website has a list of links to PDF files (containing end user content).  When a user clicks on one of these links should it open in a new tab on the browser? Or should it open in the current tab/window?    I notice that when you click on external links on Twitter or Facebook they open in a new tab, but I am unsure about best practices for internal links to PDF documents.