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Firefox Tip

Posted by Mark | Filed under Software

Have you been using Fire­fox for sev­eral months? And dur­ing that time noticed that it’s tak­ing longer & longer for the Save File dia­log box to come up? Then likely, you’ve got the same prob­lem that I’ve had. For­tu­nately, there’s an easy (but slow) fix for this.

 

Instruc­tions:

1. Open Fire­fox.
2. Go into Tools -> Options (or Edit -> Preferences).
3. Click on the Pri­vacy icon in the left-hand pane.
4. In the right-hand pane, click on Down­load Man­ager History.
5. Click the Clear but­ton. At this point, Fire­fox may appear to have crashed but in real­ity it should be going through and clear­ing out all of the items from your down­load his­tory. On my home machine, this took sev­eral min­utes to com­plete but I’ve been run­ning Fire­fox since v0.9 and have never cleared the down­load his­tory before.
6. Option­ally, you may wish to change the “Remove files from the Down­load Man­ager:” from “Man­u­ally” to “When Fire­fox exits”. To help pre­vent this slow down from hap­pen­ing again.

This fix works on both the Linux & Win­dows ver­sions of Fire­fox. I would pre­sume it also works for the OS X ver­sion, but I (sadly enough) do not have a Mac to try it out on.

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