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### Download Options

#### Download Folder

Ask me where to save every file
This is the default option. Firefox will ask you where you want a file to be saved when you download something.

Save all files to this folder:
yellowTAB recommends that you specify a default folder where all downloads will be saved to, such as the "Downloads" folder, which also is used by NetPositive. By choosing the same folder you will more easily be able to keep track of all your downloaded files.
You can browse to a specific folder by selecting "Other..." from the drop-down list of available folders. To show the folder, click the Show Folder button, which will open the folder in the Tracker.

#### File Types

This panel also controls how Firefox handles different file types such as applications, compressed files, multimedia, etc. Select the file type you want to modify and click the Change Action... button.

This will display the Change Action window, where you can choose to have the file type being opened by an application or saved to disk. For example, if you view lots of media files on Web pages, you might want to specify that it always open it in your media player, insted of asking where you want the file to be saved.

Open them in the Default application:
Select this option to open this file type in the default application for that file type (determined by the Operating System).

Open them in this application:
Select this option to specify another application that should handle this file type. You will see a dialog asking you to specify the application to use. If not, click the Change... button.

Save to Disk
This option will save the files to disk. If you have the Save all files to this folder option selected, the files will be saved automatically.

To remove an automatic rule for a file type, select that file type and click the Remove button.

From the Downloads panel, you can also control the plug-ins for Firefox. Click the Plug-Ins... button to display the Plug-Ins window:

From this window, you can control which plug-ins for Firefox that are allowed to run. For example, if you don't like Flash animations in general, but still find a need to have the plug-in installed, you can disable the plug-in here (as shown in the screenshot), which will block any Flash ads and animations until you enable the plug-in again.

### Download Manager

Do you download software and forget where you saved the file? The download manager keeps a record of what you've grabbed and where you put it. Click on the Show link next to the item, and Firefox opens the folder where the file was placed.

You can pause a download and later resume it, but only as long as you haven't quitted Firefox and then started it again.

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