Comments on: Quick Tip: Change Firefox Download File Location

By: john

john — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:42:42 +0000

thx so much My desktop is just full of downloads.

By: Jack Yan

Jack Yan — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:20:56 +0000

This was helpful, thank you. Saved me poking around the menus.

By: Smedge

Smedge — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:11:51 +0000

Great tip and written in plain language with a screenshot. It took less time to change where my downloads go than it took to leave this comment.

By: dev_info

dev_info — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:31:04 +0000

Hi,
With installed firefox on Linux, you can find the ‘options’ under Edit/preferences.

Thanks

By: Tony Patriarche

Tony Patriarche — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:49:55 +0000

Excellent. I never liked the download box much, and it’s a positive nuisance when updating a web site as it puts yet another cache in thew ay of getting the updated content. And since installing a download helper add-on it is always empty anyway! All my downloads go to my download folder, whence I move
them to categorized subdir’s once they are installed & I have decided to keep them (which has saved by bacon several times after a crash or when I am setting up anoter computer).
TP

By: Deanna

Deanna — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:00:48 +0000

Hi,

Yesterday in preparation to purchase a new product, I was directed to “clear my cookies” on Firefox so the promoter would be assured of getting the commission. As a newbie, I didn’t realize that by doing so, it would clear my ‘downloads’ directory, which I rely on to access my other downloads. Although I know that the downloads have gone to either My Documents of the Desktop, I have not kept a list elsewhere and rely on the downloads directory to access all my other stuff.

Is there a way to recover/retrieve the downloads directory? I have restored my computer to the day before, but the downloads directory is still blank. I am devastated and lost without access to the directory. Can you help?

Thanks for your input.

Deanna Patten

By: Dhanu

Dhanu — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:10:31 +0000

Hi,
Installed firefox on Linux and didn’t find ‘options’ in ‘toos’. By default files are downloading to root ‘/’ where the space is an issure in my case. Could you please suggest me the procedur to chage dowload destination. — Thank you.

By: Dhanu

Dhanu — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:05:31 +0000

Hey,
Thank you it is really useful!!

By: Saket

Saket — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:50:30 +0000

Hey,
Ok while i was downloading torrents i changed the settings. I clicked on save the file and automatically perform this action. Now when even i download a torrent it automatically downloads that torrent and saves it. But doesn’t open it. So i want to change the settings from save the file in a location to open it with utorrent.

By: Baltezers

Baltezers — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:42:19 +0000

Hi. I want to know, where to change my settings, if i don’t want to save file, but open with…, for ex., qtorrent or media player.