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Create a Preference?

jclarkw
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In Firefox for Android it was suggested that I "create the preference browser.download.dir as a string." I don't know how to do that even in Firefox for Windows. What does it mean, and how do I do it?

(Motorola G6 phone running Android 8 and Firefox 64.0.2.) -- jclarkw

In Firefox for Android it was suggested that I "create the preference browser.download.dir as a string." I don't know how to do that even in Firefox for Windows. What does it mean, and how do I do it? (Motorola G6 phone running Android 8 and Firefox 64.0.2.) -- jclarkw

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Hi jclarkw, it looks like you solved it over here while I was off traveling: https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1235944#answer-1196490

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jclarkw
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jscher2000 said

Hmm, interesting. Unfortunately, I'm not keeping up with permission changes in new versions of Android...

I did another experiment just now: Unlike Firefox for Android, Chrome (and many other apps like Camera) can easily be set so files go to another location. I set Chrome to save downloads to the SD card, and it does so now (my simple file manager shows them at "/SD Card/Android/data/com.android.chrome/files/Download").

I guess this means that whatever permissions the SD card requires that Firefox does not have, Chrome has. Does this shed any light?

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Hi jclarkw, it looks like you solved it over here while I was off traveling: https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1235944#answer-1196490

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