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How to not append '.PART' to the file name of the currently downloading file, and just download the file with its normal filename

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galacticninja
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In Windows, when Firefox (I'm currently using 7.0) downloads a file, it appends .PART to the file name of the currently downloading file and just renames it to its original file name after it finishes downloading.

I sometimes like to watch a currently downloading video file, so it will be better if Firefox just downloads the file to its actual filename (like what Opera does), so I can easily double click the incompletely downloaded file and watch it with the video player assigned to that file extension, rather than the awkward Right click -> Open With -> Choose Default Program route with .part files.

Does anyone know how to set Firefox to do this?

In Windows, when Firefox (I'm currently using 7.0) downloads a file, it appends ''.PART'' to the file name of the currently downloading file and just renames it to its original file name after it finishes downloading. I sometimes like to watch a currently downloading video file, so it will be better if Firefox just downloads the file to its actual filename (like what Opera does), so I can easily double click the incompletely downloaded file and watch it with the video player assigned to that file extension, rather than the awkward ''Right click -> Open With -> Choose Default Program'' route with .part files. Does anyone know how to set Firefox to do this?

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cor-el
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It is possible that your anti-virus software is corrupting the downloaded files or otherwise interfering with downloading files by Firefox and prevents Firefox from renaming the .part file.

Try to disable the real-time (live) scanning of files in your anti-virus software temporarily to see if that makes downloading work.

See "Disable virus scanning in Firefox preferences - Windows"

galacticninja
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I have no issue with Firefox not renaming the .PART file. I would like to configure Firefox to not create a .PART file at all and just download the file to its original real filename. See my original post on why I would like to do this.