2003-03-17: Switching download method?

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wraith
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2003-03-17: Switching download method?

Post by wraith »

Hi,

Just tried out the 03-17 and found that I could no longer switch between a download sidebar and a download window. The Option is simply gone. Could be that it was already gone in previous nightlies but it was definetly there in 0.5.

Any ideas?
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I think it's gone, I never use the sidebar....
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Just one of several choices that have been taken away

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In general the new (since Feb) Options seem to offer fewer choices than the old Preferences. Some people think that's a good thing. I don't agree with them.
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Neither do I... Many options has been removed
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Post by wraith »

So, what are you saying? I have to stick with the sidebar and can never change it back to a download window?
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Post by Tom Sommer »

There should be an option for this in prefs.js, you just need to find it... my phoenix uses download windows as default...

I think you need to check your prefs.js and see if there is an option SET for this behaviour, since it's not the default behaviour
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Post by old Neil Parks »

wraith wrote:So, what are you saying? I have to stick with the sidebar and can never change it back to a download window?


Not at all. Go to about:config and check out the "browser.download" settings.
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browser.download.openSidebar to false

would be my guess :)
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Post by Gena01 »

browser.download.useProgressDialogs should do it... if my guess is correct.

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Post by wraith »

Thank you all for your help.

In fact you have to change
user_pref("browser.download.openSidebar", true);

to "false" (after which it vanished from my prefs.js ???)

and

user_pref("browser.download.useProgressDialogs", false);

to "true".

Now it works like I want it to. Strange though, to have both but no method to switch between them aside from editing the prefs.js

Anyway.

Thank you again.
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My guess would be that only non-default settings are kept in prefs.js :)
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Post by old Neil Parks »

Don't edit prefs.js . If you prefer to edit a text file sted using about:config, create a file user.js and edit that. See David Tenser's help site for info on how to do that.
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