I changed this advanced setting to FALSE in about:config today and downloaded a few PDFs and so far this seems to have stopped files from being automatically saved in my Downloads folder. See the 0 tip in the article Restore Classic Download Confirmation Prompt in Mozilla Firefox that describes how to change the advanced setting _to_download_panel to FALSE (i.e., as suggested in option 3 of alejr’s post # 2432348). I really don’t like this new file download behaviour in FF v98. Or have I overlooked something here that would keep these ‘to-be-viewed’ files from being saved? Was this supposed to be some kind of improvement? It doesn’t seem like an improvement to me. I fail to see why FF changed its download behavior. Now, I have to go to the Download folder myself and manually clean them out and then manually delete them from the Recycle Bin. None of these cleaned out temp files gets sent to the Recycle Bin. And my A/V software (McAfee) cleans out temp files (if the box is checked for that) on a user-defined schedule. And when asked, I always elect to ‘open file’, not to save it.īut, evidently, the file is saved anyway - in the Downloads folder.īefore version 98, FF put these “to-be-viewed” files in a systems temp folder. I have set the Action for ALL file types, including. pdf files from online accounts had been downloaded to the Downloads folder, even thoughĪ. I just discovered that during the past week (i.e., since the FF update to version 98), 43. I don’t want to save them I just want to open them. pdf, jpg, and docx files offer me that option. cvs files so that I can have the option of opening them on the spot just like the dialog boxes for. I want to get a dialog box for.xlsx files and for. How can I accomplish that? I do not see any way to add applications to the Application list and to set the Action to ‘Always Ask.’ But, there must be some way to do that. I want to get the same kind of dialog box that I get for downloading pdf, jpg, and docx files. So, when I download an Excel file, the last folder that I had had open shows up in File Explorer, presuming that I want to save the downloaded Excel file there. But,I have gone to FF Settings and changed how it handles downloaded files, as you see below.Ĭonsequently, when I download a pdf, jpg, and docx file, I get the FF dialogue box that I want to get, i.e., I have a choice of saving it or opening it.īut, I do not see ‘Microsoft Excel Document’ in the FF Application list. I asked previously and you refused to answer.Firefox 98.0 has changed its behavior for downloading files. If you don't believe me, repeat these things yourself. if I -change- ".dms" to ".txt", its icon changes to that of a text document, and double-clicking it opens a file that looks THE SAME as the ones above. If I download the file using Safari, it downloads as "thisfilehasnoextension.dms".ĭouble click it and the finder tries to "extract" it, but cannot.īUT. If I add ".txt" to the file, it opens in Text Edit as before (but with no alert that it's an application).īut the resulting contents looks EXACTLY THE SAME. Or perhaps something else that is getting "mishandled" between the Apache server and the finder. it looks to be a text file of some kind, or something that was created and saved "as text". Quit Text Edit, and the file closes, too. It comes down without a visible file extension and appears to be a generic "document" file (no icon).ĭouble-clicking the file, the finder informs me it's an application and would I like to open it? I -did- download the file using another browser. I welcome correction from others in the know.Īgain, one can remove an extension (or create a file without one), but without the proper extension, the Mac won't know what to do with it. I know of at least one website from which an mp3 file will be downloaded as "" - essentially incomprehensible to the finder.Įdit the file to remove the ".html" at the end, and it magically becomes an mp3 file (as it is supposed to be). In that case, Safari has to "guess" as to what the file extension might be. I'm going to -guess- that the Apache web server mentioned above is not "handing off" such info when Safari downloads the files in question. This harkens back to the "type" and "creator" codes from the old, classic Mac OS. The user may not -see them-, but they still exist even though they are invisible (in the finder).Įven applications have extensions (".app") that are not normally seen by the user. I could be wrong, but I believe in OS X -EVERY- file has "an extension". Safari should not be doing anything here." The correct extension in all these cases is no extension. "The bug is that safari is adding an extension when there should not be one.
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