Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· ballpointcarrot

Stop the FF Download Dialog

As an Awesome WM and Firefox user, I have been tired of seeing that frustrating download dialog pop up and throw off all of my nicely tiled windows. This has been bugging me for ages. I just found the solution after some considerable googling:

  1. Open a new tab
  2. type about:config in the address bar, and accept the warning.
  3. type browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting in the searchbar
  4. Change the value of that key from true to false.
  5. Enjoy downloading without a progress dialog.