Comments on: Firefox Download Window Bug

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:30:45 +0000

Stop trolling, Obvious Solution.

On OSX Leopard and has this problem. Deleted downloads.sqlite, ran Firefox, and then changed the download folder then download something. That fixed it for me. Just change the download folder back to what it was before after the download.

By: Obvious Solution

Obvious Solution — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:10:35 +0000

Why not JUST USE IE? To me that sounds like the most obvious solution. WHY use FF anyway???

To me thats like listening to a boom box in your car when you have a factory BOSE system!!!

Just my two cents.
Obvious Solution

By: tempo dulu

tempo dulu — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:03:46 +0000

I still can't download using firefox - it's really frustrating!

By: Tankueray

Tankueray — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:15:52 +0000

I also just ran into this. I had been working around it by using DownTehmAll instead. It was getting tedious. Turns out I didn't need to change any config entries or delete any profile files. I recently moved all my drives around and the default download location was now a DVD drive. Just changed it back to a folder on the desktop and I'm good.

FF 3.5.3 and XP SP3

By: street

street — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:37:26 +0000

Same as above, no .rdl file. turns out had to check "save download history " in tool options and now all is fine:)

By: Paul Schoe

Paul Schoe — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:06:20 +0000

Time saver, Really helpfull. I got so tired of having to launch Microsoft Internet explorer every time when I needed to download a file (even attachements to my email).

However, just like a previous poster I had to do 2 things:

a) delete the 'downloads.sqlite' file

b) change the destination of the download folder in:
'tools' 'options' 'save files to' to another folder.

After I had downloaded one file, I could change the download folder back to its original setting.

Once again thanks for taking the effort of posting this solution.

By: Juani

Juani — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:59:08 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you! This problem was driving me crazy! I deleted the download.sqlite instead and it worked!
(Firefox 3.5 OSX 10.5.7)

By: HitMe WithIt

HitMe WithIt — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:23:35 +0000

OK. I had the same problem too. I clicked a link in firefox 3 and it should have brought up the downloading window but nothing at all happened. I tried right clicking and 'Save As' but nothing happened again.
I went into the config by typing
about@config
into the addressbar and then I typed the word
download
to look at all the options set for downloading.
I noticed one entry in there:
browser.download.dir and it was set to a directory location that I no longer have on my PC so I changed it to c:/downloads.
Seems to have done the trick so thought I would add this as it may help others.

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