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I am unable to enter or browse for a location to save downloads in the settings for this browser. The box to type in a destination does not allow me to type any text and the button labeled "Browse" does not pop up any additional window after I click it for me to choose a destination folder for downloads. I need to be able to alter these settings or will have to resort to using a different browser all together. I have been able to modify these same settings within Safari. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

After a PC reboot, when I launched firefox, all of my data was gone (extensions, bookmarks, passwords, etc) and it was as if I was launching Firefox for the first time. I wasn't sure if something happened to cause firefox to become corrupted, so I did a complete reinstall (uninstalled firefox + deleted all mozilla folders + deleted mozilla registry entries).

After reinstalling, Firefox now does not ask where to save files. Both "Always ask you where to save files" and "Ask whether to open or save files" are enabled in firefox settings. browser.download.alwaysOpenInSystemViewerContextMenuItem , browser.download.alwaysOpenPanel , and browser.download.always_ask_before_handling_new_types in about:config are all true as well.

Is there anything I can do to fix this issue and get firefox working as normal?

Bonjour, Comment forcer Firefox à toujours ouvrir un fichier .msg (outlook classic), au lieu d'avoir la fenêtre qui propose d’enregistrer (par défaut) ou bien d'ouvrir avec Outlook (mon choix) ? Merci.

On macOS the previous behaviour in Firefox was that the text content from the drag&drop was sent to the application I dropped to (and still works this way when doing so to the open application). But now Firefox downloads the image preview that I use to enable the drag&drop with into a temp folder, giving it a serial name. Is there any setting to revert back to the old behaviour? And if, not can you implement one please?

Regards, Åke Samuelson

When a PDF has been edited and needs to be saved again, the save dialog does not show the location of the current PDF, but rather the location where the last PDF was saved. I couldn't find a way to change this!

I have the settings set to ask where to download files I'm saving to my computer. When downloading and/or printing a document, Firefox saves a copy to my desktop even after the "save to" prompt and saving the file to a specific location. How can I stop this?

Thank you in advance!

In Settings I have "Save files to" set to Desktop. Under Applications, I have PDF Files set to "Save File." If I download any other type of file, it is saved to the Desktop, as instructed. However, when I open Firefox, the Save dialog shows PDF files will be saved to Downloads. If I change it to Desktop, the file will be saved to the Desktop. Other types of file, as mentioned above, show Desktop as the default in the Save dialog. Once I set Desktop for a PDF file, it will be remembered until I close and reopen Firefox. It will then switch back to the Downloads folder, but again, only for PDF files. Why? This is something that has stated happening sometime over the last couple of months.

Windows 10 Pro 22H2, October 2025 patches installed. Firefox v144.0.2

in my opinion downloading files requires much time compared to other browses so i just wanted to request if you can help to improve the way of saving files.thanks bold text

I use a portal for work and am required to download a variety of documents for specific tasks. When I download certain documents, predominantly Word documents, they are saved with a file name that ends with the word attachment, e.g. 'abcd.docx,attachment'

This does not happen with any other browsers that I use and I know the obvious answer is to use those but I'm interested as to whether anybody else has had this problem and whether they have found a solution?

I designed a label in Avery, downloaded as a PDF and told my download to always open in Adobe Acrobat Reader. When I try to open the download I'm told that Reader can't pen because it is either not a supported file type or the file has been damaged. How can I change the program that opens my downloads? I'm using latest Firefox on a Windows computer.

If I click "Display the progress of ongoing downloads" I can see what is currently downloading, but then when I click "Show All Downloads", nothing shows on the next screen. I've rebooted and restarted Firefox several times, on one or two occasions items DO come up on that next screen, but usually nothing is showing.

Download not adding a number to like files when saving. For instance (mycardexp.doc if I download the same named file tomorrow mycardexp.doc it use to add a number like mycardexp(1).doc FF has stopped adding the number showing that multiple files by the same name exist and how many.

If I check "Always ask you where to save files" to true, the settings is reset to "false" after I restart my browser. Is this a bug? How can I make this setting persistent?

I use Firefox 146.0.1 (64-bit) for Windows 11

By default ALL BOOKMARKS BACKUP saves on DESKTOP (Windows 11 pro). How can I change where the *.json file is stored (downloaded). I want D:\ZTEMP as the place to save all downloaded files as in settings "Files and Applications" "Downloads" "Save files to" D:\ZTEMP for me. example bookmarks-2026-01-03.json is placed on DESKTOP; I want in D:\ZTEMP. Thank you.

Hi

Recently, I have been testing the functionality of my website using Puppeteer, but I found an issue with the file names when operating the Firefox browser through Puppeteer. When the user clicks the download button, my JS code generates a series of special file names. However, when I use Puppeteer, the file names seem to be truncated. Additionally, I have configured the BIDI protocol while using Puppeteer.

For example: When I manually open the firfox browser and click download button, the file name I get is ANTLMonitoring_MRBTS-530377530377530377_Wroclaw_class._2!__________+-=~,*@#$^&*()￥'.{}[]*;中文Приве..*TEST_123_20251028-0409.csv But when I perform the same steps using Puppeteer, the downloaded file name is ANTLMonitoring_MRBTS-530377530377530377_Wroclaw_class._2!__________`+-=~,_@#$^&_().csv (puppeteer)

Comparison: ANTLMonitoring_MRBTS-530377530377530377_Wroclaw_class._2!__________`+-=~,_@#$^&_().csv (puppeteer) ANTLMonitoring_MRBTS-530377530377530377_Wroclaw_class._2!__________+-=~,*@#$^&*()￥'.{}[]_;中文Приве.._TEST_123_20251028-0409.csv (Manual)

In both manual testing and Puppeteer testing, I used the default browser configuration. The operating system tested is Windows 11, and the browser version is 144.0 (64-bit). Can anyone help me with this issue? Thank you very much!

I have the box checked 'Always ask you where to save files' but Firefox saves them to the default folder which I can't delete. it's a real pain in the a** to have to go back and move files. How can I change this?