On Sat, 3 May 2014, King Beowulf wrote: > Here's how to accomplish what you seek - at least when I tested Firefox > 24.5 Slackware64 14.1. Seems I only have time to obsess about this > stuff at midnight!
Ed, I'm really glad that you don't turn into a pumpkin at midnight! I'm running the same FF and Slackware versions and _thought_ there'd be something in about:config but didn't think to open that page and try different search terms, such as download. Mea culpa! > 1. Open FF > 2. type "about:config" in the URL area > 3. In the search box, type "browser.download" to filter the list > 4. Look for the following 2 keys and set as specified: > > browser.download.manager.retention 0 > browser.download.useToolkitUI true > > 5. restart FF. > > "browser.download.manager.retention" has values to remove the download list: > 0: Upon successful download > 1: When the browser exits > 2 (default): Manually > > HOWEVER! This only works with the old style download manager. The new > download manager is a browser window which ignores this setting. To set > the old d/l manager (pop up window), set "browser.download.useToolkitUI" > to false. No you download will magically vanish when done. Perfect answer. > reference: > http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries This is valuable and a new resource for me. > Ack, freakin' pain in the ass. > Carpe Mozilla...and strangle the bastard.... Hey! At least is't not IE. Thank you for a valuable lesson that's very much appreciated appreciated. Carpe weekend, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
