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Auto open download manager hanger

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Is there some way to force the download hanger to automatically open when a download starts? I thought I had this enabled at some point but not anymore.

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Re: Auto open download manager hanger

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Don't know if this covers it or not, browser.download.panel.shown ?
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Re: Auto open download manager hanger

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therube wrote:Don't know if this covers it or not, browser.download.panel.shown ?
That seems to be the controlling pref:
- if it is set to false, the download hanger appears and Fx sets the value to true
- if it is set to true, the download hanger does not appear

But Fx never seems to reset the value to false. If I force the value to false, I see the hanger once but never again. A bug?
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yes, I also tried that config, and it works like you described.
I think it's a bug.
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Re: Auto open download manager hanger

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I think the developers only want to show the download panel once.

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// This records whether or not the panel has been shown at least once.
pref("browser.download.panel.shown", false);
Reference
http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-release/ ... firefox.js

Locking preferences
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lock_Prefs
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tortino wrote:I have submitted bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424830
Thanks, that is a good description.
morat wrote:I think the developers only want to show the download panel once.
But not only once and then never more, which is what we currently have. In <DownloadsCommon.jsm>, it looks like the intent is to "notify that a new download has started or finished".

Hopefully comments in bugzilla will make things clear ;-)
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Re: Auto open download manager hanger

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The bug was resolved as wontfix.

Automatically open the download hanger when a download starts
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424830

I guess the developers only want to show the download panel once.
Paolo Amadini wrote:We investigated this in bug 1269954.
Pop out download starting notification when a new download request is triggered
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269954

Can you force the download hanger to automatically open by locking the preference?

Locking preferences
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lock_Prefs
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Re: Auto open download manager hanger

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morat wrote:Can you force the download hanger to automatically open by locking the preference?
Yes.
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Gingerbread Man wrote:
morat wrote:Can you force the download hanger to automatically open by locking the preference?
Yes.
WFM :-) Thanks ...
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Re: Auto open download manager hanger

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morat wrote:Can you force the download hanger to automatically open by locking the preference?

Locking preferences
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lock_Prefs
Locking the pref still works, but as of Aurora 64.0b7 buildID 20181105164654, the name of the lock file in the <pref> subfolder of the installation directory is <autoconfig.js>. The old name <local-settings.js> appears to have been deprecated.
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