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MP3 downloads are now playing instead of being saved in folder as before.

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MP3 downloads are now playing instead of being saved in folder as before.

Tried the archives on this question such as enter: about:config into the firefox address bar & search for the preference named media.windows-media-foundation.enabled. double-click it and change its value to false.

If any of the following settings have a status of user set, reset their values. To reset a value, right-click the setting and select Reset from the context menu: browser.download.dir browser.download.downloadDir browser.download.folderList browser.download.lastDir browser.download.useDownloadDir

Have been left downloading for many years and am a bit puzzled why it has change. I have no way to download MP3 files now :(

MP3 downloads are now playing instead of being saved in folder as before. Tried the archives on this question such as enter: about:config into the firefox address bar & search for the preference named media.windows-media-foundation.enabled. double-click it and change its value to false. If any of the following settings have a status of user set, reset their values. To reset a value, right-click the setting and select Reset from the context menu: browser.download.dir browser.download.downloadDir browser.download.folderList browser.download.lastDir browser.download.useDownloadDir Have been left downloading for many years and am a bit puzzled why it has change. I have no way to download MP3 files now :(

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Right-click the link and choose Save Link As.

If that's not possible for some reason,

  1. Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
  2. Press the big button to bypass the warning.
  3. In the search bar, type media.directshow.enabled
  4. In the search results, double-click media.directshow.enabled to set its value to false
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Chosen Solution

Right-click the link and choose Save Link As.

If that's not possible for some reason,

  1. Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
  2. Press the big button to bypass the warning.
  3. In the search bar, type media.directshow.enabled
  4. In the search results, double-click media.directshow.enabled to set its value to false
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#ifdef MOZ_WMF
pref("media.windows-media-foundation.enabled", true);
pref("media.windows-media-foundation.use-dxva", true);
pref("media.windows-media-foundation.play-stand-alone", true);
#endif
#ifdef MOZ_DIRECTSHOW
pref("media.directshow.enabled", true);
#endif

#ifdef MOZ_DIRECTSHOW
  // Note: DirectShow decoder must come before WMFDecoder, else the pref
  // "media.directshow.preferred" won't be honored.
  if (IsDirectShowSupportedType(aType)) {
   decoder = new DirectShowDecoder();
   return decoder.forget();
  }
#endif

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Thank you Gingerbread Man :) Am now able to save MP3 downloads using Right-click and Save Link As. Though I now have to do three clicks of my mouse to save download, whereas before it was just one Left-click on the link which was handy as I download a lot of MP3 podcasts.

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Thank you for your post Cor-el I didn't understand what I was supposed to do with it. If you have the time, I would need a step by step procedure. It would be good to get back to the single Left-click download instead of the Right-click on link, Left-click on Save Link As and then Left-click to save in Folder.