Firefox downloads?

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 12:45 pm

Not sure whether I changed something but when downloading an attachement from an e-mail I'm not given a choose to open instead of saving it somewhere.

I can open it from the Download window but has also saved it to wherever I have setup.

Can I just open a file?

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:58 pm

In FireFox, go to the Tools menu, then select \"Options...\" In the options dialog, in the \"Main\" portion you will find settings for controlling FireFox's behavior when you choose to download something.

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:48 pm

Been there TechPro but there's nothing to allow you just to open. As far as I can see all options don't give you an option not to save but just open.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:24 pm

check your firewall options. AVG was doing that to me when I was using it.

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:06 pm

If you've already been to the download options ... then I assume this happens when you're getting certain file types? Not with everything? Most likely you need to find that file type in the lists shown in the Application options (in the FireFox options) and tell FireFox that you want it to always just open that file type. It's entirely your choice.

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:23 am

They are saved as Windows Media Player WMV files. FF just doesn't give me an option to open them w/o saving them.

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:00 pm

You did check there? Cause I'm pretty sure FireFox let's you set it to always ask.

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:03 am

Didn't see that and that's it, thanks a lot.