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download issue with name length

joycepureeos
joycepureeos
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I just installed Firefox for the first time and I downloaded a pdf and when I went to access it, Firefox shortened the name of the file to two letters. When I tried to rename it to the full name, it only gave me so many letters. That never happened to me with Chrome.

I just installed Firefox for the first time and I downloaded a pdf and when I went to access it, Firefox shortened the name of the file to two letters. When I tried to rename it to the full name, it only gave me so many letters. That never happened to me with Chrome.

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Hi, that's strange.

If you want to be able to check and/or modify the document name while saving, you can turn on the feature to show a file browsing dialog when saving a download. This is on the Options page: