firefox customized downloads

Forum: Apps
Topic: firefox customized downloads
started by: gurru

Posted by gurru on Dec. 20 2004,00:29

I have been able to create a folder on my hdd to store firefox bookmarks, cache, etc. Works great except the download folder is automaticly set at /home/dsl
and I want it to be /mnt/hda1/files.

I should add that I run this totally from RAM.
The toram option is amazingly fast. :cool:

I also boot a USB drive when I am at work. But that is a another story.
If I can figure this one out, then customizing my USB drive should be no problem.

Thanks to anyone who is willing to help!
I have been using DSL for about a year now, and always have found solutions by searching forums. This one just has me stumped.

Posted by gurru on Dec. 20 2004,01:50

Let me refocus my question...

I need to change the default downloads path in firefox.
While this is supposedly a simple task, clicking "Ask me where to save every file"
option does not work. Why?
How do I change it? I can not find the config file that contains this path.

Posted by DonttPanic on Dec. 20 2004,04:24

You should be able to change the path of where it saves files by going into Edit>Preferences>Downloads (or Tools>Options>Downloads if you have a newer version of firefox... i think). If you are running from a liveCD or USB, you may have to edit the filetool.lst to save your configuration. I'm not sure. I run from an HD install

Posted by gurru on Dec. 22 2004,20:54

Thanks to ke4nt1 for this nfo

>There were some issues regarding the "downloads" section of firefox not >keeping
>it's settings,
>or allowing one to preset actions for filetypes (m3u, pdf, etc... ) and make
>them stick.

>This has been addressed in the 0.9.1 version , and works for me in pre-release
>testing.
>Grab the new 0.9.1 , at one of the mirrors, like alien , and test this for
>yourself.

>The official release for 0.9.1 will be early this week..