How to not append '.PART' to the file name of the currently downloading file, and just download the file with its normal filename
In Windows, when Firefox (I'm currently using 7.0) downloads a file, it appends .PART to the file name of the currently downloading file and just renames it to its original file name after it finishes downloading.
I sometimes like to watch a currently downloading video file, so it will be better if Firefox just downloads the file to its actual filename (like what Opera does), so I can easily double click the incompletely downloaded file and watch it with the video player assigned to that file extension, rather than the awkward Right click -> Open With -> Choose Default Program route with .part files.
Does anyone know how to set Firefox to do this?
Modified by galacticninja
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It is possible that your anti-virus software is corrupting the downloaded files or otherwise interfering with downloading files by Firefox and prevents Firefox from renaming the .part file.
Try to disable the real-time (live) scanning of files in your anti-virus software temporarily to see if that makes downloading work.
See "Disable virus scanning in Firefox preferences - Windows"
I have no issue with Firefox not renaming the .PART file. I would like to configure Firefox to not create a .PART file at all and just download the file to its original real filename. See my original post on why I would like to do this.