Discrepancy when downloading files (FF 52)

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kimi85
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Joined: December 1st, 2008, 2:55 am

Discrepancy when downloading files (FF 52)

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Hi there,

On my one of my ancient Windows XP computer, I have been using Firefox 52 ESR which is the latest version for XP, but I bet the behaviour would be the same on latest Firefox version. My problem is; As I want to download ALL files to a fixed path (which Chrome allows), In General Tab, EVENTHOUGH I set "Downloads" to save on specific location like this:
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But since the setting appears not to be enough, I'm still prompted and asked what to do when I click on a (for example: Zip) file when downloading. Then I figured out that I also HAD TO change "zip" file types setting from "Always Ask (default)" to "Save File" particularly like this:
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Why is this?

Can't we override this behaviour by a global setting for all file types without particularly setting each one from "Always Ask" to "Save File"?

TLDR; The first setting of specifying a fixed download path does NOT work alone unless you set the second one. That's very annoying...

Many thanks!
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