Download completed popup

September 14, 2006 1:25 PM

How do I make Firefox cease to popup a tab in the lower right corner of my screen that says "All Downloads Completed"?
posted by Steven C. Den Beste to Computers & Internet (10 answers total)

Best answer: about:config, set browser.download.manager.showAlertOnComplete to false by double-clicking.
posted by aye at 1:31 PM on September 14, 2006 [2 favorites]

Thank you for asking the question and aye for answering it. This has been bugging me for a long time but not enough to ask..
posted by Ferrari328 at 1:34 PM on September 14, 2006

Also, get the Download Statusbar extension, which is probably my favorite extension.
posted by grouse at 1:42 PM on September 14, 2006

Disable Targets for Downloads is another useful extension.
posted by Mr. Gunn at 2:07 PM on September 14, 2006

yeah, don't bother changing anything, just get the download status bar extension, its much more useful and will kill the popup itself.
posted by allkindsoftime at 3:17 PM on September 14, 2006

Forgive my ignorance, but where is this about:config thing? I have no interest in downloading extensions, but would like to cure the same ill :)
posted by Joh at 3:30 PM on September 14, 2006

you type it in the address bar Joh. Like a url.
posted by lemonfridge at 3:38 PM on September 14, 2006

And Joh, once you get to about:config, the "filter" box at the top of the page is a Good Thing. Type part of the name of whatever setting you're interested in changing into that box, and the huge confusing field of settings shrinks to show only settings whose name includes what you typed.
posted by flabdablet at 7:28 PM on September 14, 2006

Download Manager Tweak gives you a little checkbox in the options to turn it off.
posted by IndigoRain at 8:53 PM on September 14, 2006

I use Download Manager Tweak.
posted by rxrfrx at 4:38 AM on September 15, 2006