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when I am downloading something and i close firefox, the download just finishes downloading prematurly. It basicly corrups the download when i close it.

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when I am downloading something and i close Firefox, the download just finishes downloading prematurely. It basically corrupts the download when i close it.

when I am downloading something and i close Firefox, the download just finishes downloading prematurely. It basically corrupts the download when i close it.

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You can set the pref browser.download.manager.quitBehavior to 2 on the about:config page.
That will make Firefox ask for confirmation if you want to cancel the download if you close Firefox.

See:


To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.

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sweet I'll try that, thanks alot