How to Choose Download Location for Firefox Download Manager

June 30th, 2008 Firefox download manager is still flaky, even after three major versions. Often the download stops for no apparent reasons.

February 1st, 2005 I realized that Firefox 1.0 download manager often completes abruptly declaring the file download as completed, even when only a portion of the file is downloaded. This is very frequent in slow connections.

September 7th, 2005 Problem Firefox downloads any file to desktop by default. This soon leads to a cluttered desktop.

October 14th, 2008 The download manager of Firefox is one of the most advanced features of a modern internet browser. From the age old Windows' default download options in Internet Explorer to Opera or Maxthon's improved download managers, we have seen them all.

October 8th, 2006 While downloading Fedora Core 5 using DAP, I ran out of temporary disk space (which is by default in C: drive) thereby wasting several hours of download. Download Accelerator Plus (DAP is a popular file download utility) saves the partially downloaded segments in %TEMP% directory.

July 17th, 2006 Share Firefox with a friend. If your friend downloads Firefox before September 15, you’ll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.

September 2nd, 2007 In Linux, unlike Windows, multiple users can simultaneously connect to the same machine and get a full GUI using windows managers like VNC. However when one of the account has Firefox opened, others are prevented from bringing up firefox which can be very much irritating.

July 14th, 2007 In Firefox when you click on a file to download / view the browser comes up with a prompt which allows you to either open the file with a specified program or save it to disk. You are also given the option to "Do this automatically for files like this from now on".

December 24th, 2008 Though in this on going battle of Firefox and Google Chrome, Opera has never lost its own position. Probably the most under-rated (less discussed to be accurate) browsers of our times, Opera has many a features which even Firefox don't.

February 16th, 2009 Firefox has almost become the only solution to your internet browsing these days. Despite the advent of Chrome and the promise of Opera 11, not much of an impact is to be seen regarding people's trust over Firefox.

November 18th, 2007 By default in Firefox you can type one or more keywords in the location bar. Firefox recognizes that it is not an URL and uses I'm Lucky search with Google search engine for version < 2; it uses Google search by name for Firefox version 2 and above.

March 27th, 2009 As its now official that Firefox has more bugs than IE, Safari and Chrome combined, we have more reasons to be worried about its stability while we are doing any web based work. Talk of dependence and there we have it on Firefox because others are just not upto it.

January 7th, 2009 Street fight to Hallelujah - Solo Piano, warcraft to witchcraft, uploading doesn't stop on YouTube, vice versa downloading. If you the one on receiving end, ideas for downloading videos may pour like rain.

May 12th, 2005 A discussion on the update and how to install it.

June 18th, 2008 Firefox 3 crosses 5 million downloads in 24 hours, despite teething network problems due to massive site load. Firefox 3 comes with over 15, 000 improvements.