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"Firefox will automatically bring up the Downloads panel by default" behavior steals the focus

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Hello,

I need to use the "Auto Save HTML" plug-in on some websites and this new behavior is very annoying because the popping up Downloads window always steals the focus from the input fields on those websites.

The websites change based on some input fields so the plug-in starts a new download every time, and bamm, the focus goes to the popping up Downloads window right away as I would continue typing in the input fields.

The "browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel" flag is a solution with False value now, but I don't dare to update Firefox anymore, because maybe future versions will ignore that flag.

Can we get an option in the settings so we can turn this behavior off properly?

Thanks, Attila

Hello, I need to use the "Auto Save HTML" plug-in on some websites and this new behavior is very annoying because the popping up Downloads window always steals the focus from the input fields on those websites. The websites change based on some input fields so the plug-in starts a new download every time, and bamm, the focus goes to the popping up Downloads window right away as I would continue typing in the input fields. The "browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel" flag is a solution with False value now, but I don't dare to update Firefox anymore, because maybe future versions will ignore that flag. Can we get an option in the settings so we can turn this behavior off properly? Thanks, Attila