Hi. I would like firefox to download certain .mp4 videos. However, it plays inside firefox instead. How can I configure this? Thank you!

I use firefox browser on windows, btw.

Hi, if you open a .mp3 or .mp4 directly in a tab, Firefox plays it using the "stand alone" media player. You can disable the stand alone media player so Firefox will show a Download dialog instead. Here are the steps for that:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.

(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste media.play-stand-alone and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the preference to switch the value from true to false

If you need to turn it back on, return to that preference and double-click it to toggle it back to true (or you can use the controls on the right end of that row to switch/reset it).

Does that make Firefox do what you want it to do?

Hi, if you open a .mp3 or .mp4 directly in a tab, Firefox plays it using the "stand alone" media player. You can disable the stand alone media player so Firefox will show a Download dialog instead. Here are the steps for that: (1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk. (2) In the search box in the page, type or paste media.play-stand-alone and pause while the list is filtered (3) Double-click the preference to switch the value from true to false If you need to turn it back on, return to that preference and double-click it to toggle it back to true (or you can use the controls on the right end of that row to switch/reset it). Does that make Firefox do what you want it to do?

Thank you so much for this. I don't know this one since I just moved to firefox 2 days ago from google chrome.

No worries, everyone has questions when adjusting to a different browser.