I wish there was an option to open a file after you download

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Cheater87
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I wish there was an option to open a file after you download

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I like this feature in Chrome and Vivaldi, wish that Firefox had it.
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Re: I wish there was an option to open a file after you down

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If you mean to automatically open the file, that's something of a security issue.
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Re: I wish there was an option to open a file after you down

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An AV program would catch it when downloading or done downloading.
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Not necessarily
What sort of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
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This will definitely not happen with say .exe on Windows especially because whom do you think people will blame if they have their Firefox run a file and it infects their OS. Mozilla cares about security while Google may not as much.

There is the OpenDownload² extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addo ... oad-10902/
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Safari used to do that by default many years ago. Bad idea.
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Re: I wish there was an option to open a file after you down

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Why would you want it? What happens if you download a file that has malware or something else bad, Firefox prevents this automatically to protect you and your computer, because as James says "Mozilla cares".
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