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Firefox 150.0.1 Ubuntu 22.04

Problem: When downloading a file from a web page, the list of files and folders in the Download Panel are sorted such that file names and folder names are intermingled, rather than the "standard" folders first, then files.

Discussion: This problem has been happening for a bit now (probably 2 - 3 months or more). Unfortunately, I don't recall exactly which version of Firefox this originally showed up in. At some point recently, the default sort for the Download Panel changed, so that instead of listing folders at the top of the list of download targets, then listing files, now all items are interspersed. For example, previously selecting to download a file from a web page would give the Download Panel contents as:

AFolder BFolder CFolder AFile.txt BFile.pdf CFile.jpg

Now, the list presents as:

AFile.txt AFolder BFile.pdf BFolder CFile.jpb CFolder

I would like to go back to the previous sorting behavior, but I cannot find a way to do this. I have searched the Mozilla help articles without turning up relevant information, and I have searched the internet for web sites that might list relevant information, but either the information I am seeking is not out there (unlikely) or I am not coming up with search terms that locate the information (much more likely).

I am not even 100% sure that this is a Firefox problem (it is within the bounds of possibility that it is an OS problem), but none of my other regularly used programs show the symptom, so it would seem odd to me for it to be something other than a Firefox problem.

I would appreciate any pointers (web pages, help articles, or even just "change this in about:config) on how to resolve this.

Hi.

I am running Firefox 149.0.2 on Arch Linux (Linux 6.19.12-arch1-1 (x86_64)). I have configured Firefox to use the "~/downloads" folder for downloads instead of the default "~/Downloads". I have also checked the "Clear cookies and site data every time you close Firefox" box in the "Privacy & Security" tab of the settings page, and configured the History settings to "Never remember history".

The Downloads folder I have set is indeed respected by Firefox: all files I download are saved to "~/downloads". However, every time I close Firefox it creates a folder entitled "Downloads" (with a capital "D") on my home folder. I do not want this folder to be created.

This really looks like a bug from my perspective, but is there some way yo fix this via the "about:config" tab? Thanks for the attention.

When I try to save a file, if the target exists, Firefox defaults to overwriting. I'd rather it default to cancel. At least it works this way in Linux. It defaults to cancelling in Windoze.

I am using the automatic update function. Since one of the latest updates (14X) the download window no longer shows the original file name, but it remains blank. This might be due to an enhanced security feature, but I did not find details so far. Any hint where to look or how to fix the problem would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance, Christoph

This setting, "Always ask you where to save files," is definitely broken.

In a related article, they provided this solution: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/que.../1534384 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1534384]

Proposed solution: "I believe you also need to go into Tools -> Settings -> General and set the Action for the types of downloads (Applications) to Always Ask for those types you want it to."

But this workaround should not be needed. "Always ask" means always ask. As in always. No other additional steps should be needed.

Can you folks please open a bug to get this fixed? This used to work just fine in (much) older versions of Firefox and Netscape. "Always ask" is supposed to mean always ask. Like, always.

Mint 147.0.4 64 bit I click on a pdf, it opens in qpdfview. It also saves in wherever my default save folder is. I later have to go remove all these junk PDFs from Downloads or wherever because I either didn't want them or saved them elsewhere.

Please stop "helping me". I do not want to be "helped". How can I stop this auto-save """feature"""?

I think this started back in 98.

from Mint: [code] System:

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   Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Machine:

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CPU:

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Audio:

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   speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4:5 chip-ID: 0b05:1a52 class-ID: 0300
 Device-4: Logitech Brio 100 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
   lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-5.1:11 chip-ID: 046d:094c class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
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   lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-8:10 chip-ID: 1c75:028a class-ID: 0103 serial: <filter>
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 Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
   2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin

Network:

 Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210/AX1675 2x2 [Typhoon Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
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 IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter>
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   lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:125c class-ID: 0200
 IF: eno2 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>

Bluetooth:

 Device-1: Intel AX210 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1
   bus-ID: 1-14:16 chip-ID: 8087:0032 class-ID: e001
 Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block:
   hardware: no software: yes address: <filter>

RAID:

 Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller Intel driver: vmd v: 0.6
   port: N/A bus-ID: 00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:a77f rev: class-ID: 0104

Drives:

 Local Storage: total: 2.73 TiB used: 576.74 GiB (20.6%)
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   lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 5B2QGXA7 temp: 34.9 C scheme: GPT
 ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 990 PRO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s
   lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 4B2QJXD7 temp: 32.9 C scheme: GPT
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   speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 234110WD temp: 30.9 C scheme: GPT

Partition:

 ID-1: / size: 96.36 GiB used: 35.1 GiB (36.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
 ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 37 MiB (38.5%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1

Swap:

 ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile

USB:

 Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
   chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
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   power: 100mA chip-ID: 174c:2074 class-ID: 0900
 Device-1: 1-1.2:4 info: Trust 2.4G Speed Mouse type: keyboard,mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid
   interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 145f:01c1 class-ID: 0301
 Hub-3: 1-2:3 info: Realtek 4-Port USB 2.0 Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
   chip-ID: 0bda:5420 class-ID: 0900
 Device-1: 1-2.1:6 info: Cyber Power System CP1500 AVR UPS type: HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid
   interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 50mA chip-ID: 0764:0501 class-ID: 0300
 Device-2: 1-2.3:7 info: HP HP LaserJet Pro 4001 type: printer driver: usbfs interfaces: 4
   rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 2mA chip-ID: 03f0:0274 class-ID: 0701 serial: <filter>
 Device-3: 1-2.4:8 info: HP HP ColorLaserJet M253-M254 type: printer driver: usbfs interfaces: 5
   rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 2mA chip-ID: 03f0:ac2a class-ID: 0701 serial: <filter>
 Device-4: 1-4:5 info: ASUSTek USB Audio type: audio,HID
   driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 8 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
   power: 100mA chip-ID: 0b05:1a52 class-ID: 0300
 Hub-4: 1-5:9 info: ASMedia ASM1074 High-Speed hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
   power: 100mA chip-ID: 174c:2074 class-ID: 0900
 Device-1: 1-5.1:11 info: Logitech Brio 100 type: video,audio driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
   interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 500mA chip-ID: 046d:094c class-ID: 0102
   serial: <filter>
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   type: keyboard,HID,mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
   lanes: 1 power: 500mA chip-ID: 1b1c:1bff class-ID: 0301 serial: <filter>
 Hub-5: 1-5.3:15 info: VIA Labs USB2.0 Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
   chip-ID: 2109:2817 class-ID: 0900
 Device-1: 1-8:10 info: Arturia KeyLab Essential 61 type: audio driver: snd-usb-audio
   interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 1c75:028a class-ID: 0103
   serial: <filter>
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   chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900
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   interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 16mA chip-ID: 0b05:19af class-ID: 0300
   serial: <filter>
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   rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0032 class-ID: e001
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   class-ID: 0900
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   chip-ID: 0bda:0420 class-ID: 0900
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   power: 8mA chip-ID: 174c:3074 class-ID: 0900
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   chip-ID: 2109:0817 class-ID: 0900

Sensors:

 System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 35 C
 Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%

Repos:

 Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2491
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   3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse
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Info:

 Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 31.03 GiB used: 4.52 GiB (14.6%)
 Processes: 534 Power: uptime: 1h 14m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep wakeups: 0
   hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 255 target: graphical (5) default: graphical
 Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Client: Unknown python3.12 client inxi: 3.3.34

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Environment - OS: Omarchy - File manager: Nautilus (running as --gapplication-service) - Desktop portals: xdg-desktop-portal + xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland (+ gtk fallback) Firefox: latest stable from Arch repositories

Observations Only one Firefox process is running (pgrep -a firefox). Only one Nautilus process is running, but it receives two open requests, resulting in two windows. The issue does not occur in Chromium/Chrome, which opens only one window. Running xdg-open <file> manually opens one Nautilus window.

Portal logs show GTK being chosen as last-resort fallback, but system-wide XDG configuration appears correct.

Question

Is this a known Wayland/portal bug in Firefox? Are there recommended debugging flags or patches to trace the duplicate launch request?

Hello! See the screenshot please: so, I downloaded à pay-bill, with Firefox (under ubuntu), in private navigation, and I get the file with a padlock-symbol at the end. What means that? What means that for me (on my computer), what means that for à friend, when I sent him the pdt-file (can he open it?). Nota: I understood that I can choose between "delete downloads when closing the privat window" or not. And I choosed not to delete them (but there appears this padlock-symbol). Thanks for your help! Michael from France

One of my jobs requires me to download work related documents on my personal pc. I would like to assign the website of the platform we use to download those files in a specific folder so i could delete them easily afterwards. Are there any plans to add such a feature to the browser? Is there a way to do it already? (without having to use the "always ask" option) Thanks in advance. Cheers from Uruguay

Hi there I have the problem that my firefox can save any file or download on my other drives since they arent event show as an option. I did a little research and read that by default in linux for security reason was unable to, but asking in the official forum of my distro (cachyos), they can save thing in other drives with no problems.

So i wanted to know why i dont?, my firefox installation is native at installing the dristro and having all perimission but it cant see my drives except the one is installed to (and where my OS is).

The only thing different i actually do is the folder where my current user info is saved, i moved the files from my user but with the files i had from my old windows session to impor my saved sites, favorites, etc.

Can you help me to be able to save files or images on my other drives?, thank you for time.

Firefox used to save unknown files according to the save files setting. i.e. ask where to save files. Now if opens unknown files as text in a new tab.

How can the correct behavior be restored?

Alternately, can the Linux snap be fixed to allow saving of new file types? {The procedure shown in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-firefox-behavior-when-open-file is not present in the firefox 141 snap.

When I do "save as " action for an image in the browser it opens dialogue window to save selected image. Unfortunately it displays files and folders in some random order, rather than my preferred order (sorted alphabetically by name, followed by sorting by type).

I can see no rhyme or reason to the way Firefox lists files and folders in the dialogue window, so every time I am saving an image I have to sort things by name and type before I can find what I want.

This is not permanent so I have to repeat this action every time I save an image.

How do I, please set application preferences? to make this setting permanent?

I need to call an executable script that I wrote when I click on a link to a file of a certain file type. I used to be able to browse to my script in order to set it as the desired application, but now I can't find any way to persuade Firefox to call my script when, for example, the linked-to file's name ends in '.dng'. Where is the list of such applications, and how do I add my script to it?

To preface this, I am not sure if this is caused by my OS (Ubuntu 24.04) or by the way Firefox tends to work on Linux as other issues have been (and therefore, might be resolved with a change in about:config).

Problem: When I download a file and download another one right after that one, the window showing the folder I am choosing to download to won't show the file/image preview of the file I just downloaded before; it only shows the correct preview once I have opened the file manager on my OS; after doing that the file preview is up to date again. (basically, it only shows the correct file preview when I viewed the files on my desktop before opening the download window and will not keep up to date with the most recent changes on its own like it does on Windows for example)

Hello!

 Since some days I have the problem that all files I download from outlook are accompanied by a preceding UTF-8 in the file name. This is not the case for e.g. google chrome. Can I fix this problem by myself, or is it a general problem of firefox 128.9esr (64-bit)?

When I was previously using Firefox in Kubuntu 22.04, if I downloaded something I could go to the Downloads icon and click on the download and it would open in the desired application. After a failed upgrade to 24.04 I had to do a reinstall and now in Kubuntu 24.04, if I click on a downloaded file it will always bring up a window with "Open the file link with okular?" and the buttons Cancel and Open Link below. How do I go back to the previous way of it working?

Hello,

I'm using Firefox on Manjaro. Usually I'm using dolphin but I've installed nemo too for having a second option if dolphin doesn't work. But after installing nemo the file management software when opening the folder where the file downloaded switched to dolphin. Where can I change it back to dolphin?

Firefox Version: 135.0 (64-Bit)

System Information: Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0 Qt Version: 6.8.1 Kernel Version: 6.12.11-1-MANJARO (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11