![]() On the General page, you will get what you want. Download firefox installer form here: (select installer version for your language and system). Go to the Firefox’s menu bar and choose Edit > Preferences There you are. Mac-but it’s essentially the same.īonus tip: Ever wonder how you can download a whole web page as a PDF file? Check out our guide on Webpage to PDF. One options in there is to select installation location. The flows may differ slightly across operating systems, e.g., Windows vs. The process should be near-identical even for other more obscure web browsers. You open up the Preferences/Settings page, and there should be an option to change your download folder’s location. How To Change the Download Location in Internet ExplorerĬlick ‘View Downloads’ and then ‘Options.’Ĭlick ‘Browser’ and pick the download folder.Īs you can see, the means to set a new download location in your web browser is pretty similar across browsers. Hit ‘Settings’ and navigate to the ‘Downloads’ section.Ĭlick ‘Change’ and choose your download folder.Īll done-saved files should go to the new folder. Launch Edge, click the kebab menu icon (the three vertical dots). ![]() How To Change the Download Location in Microsoft Edge Under the ‘Downloads’ section, click ‘Change.’ Launch Opera and open up the Settings page.Ĭlick ‘Advanced’ to display all advanced options. How To Change the Download Location in Opera How To Change the Download Location in FirefoxĬlick the ‘General’ tab and then ‘Files and Applications.’įrom there, click Browse and select your new download location.Īnd you’re all done with setting your new Downloads folder. When you click on the dropdown menu, you can also choose ‘Ask for each download’ if you would like to pick a folder to download files to every time-albeit it’s a time-consuming route. Open Safari, click ‘Safari’ at the top-left cover.Ĭlick on ‘Preferences’ and locate the General tab.Ĭlick the dropdown menu for the ‘File download location’ option.Ĭlick ‘Other,’ locate the folder and click ‘Select.’Īnd you’re good to go for Safari. How To Change the Download Location in Safari The process is similar to the other five browsers, which we will cover below. So, I should step down of my high horse myself and be sorry for the misunderstanding.And that’s that-Chrome should now save every downloaded file straight to the specified folder. I thought you were referrong to a someone of "our" LM Forum and I admit I've not open that link because after hovering over it, it didn't begin with "linuxmint" (official), "viewtopic" (the forum) or a trusted source like "debian", "ubuntu", "mozilla", a.s.o I am more than happy to explain and have done so many times If you ever have a question about something I have posted or it does not seem to make sense to you, please ask for a clarification. However, many people prefer to change a downloaded file destination. ![]() That webpage, in a page in askvg, says it removes older comments to 'reduce database overload' so today I see the comment I referenced is no longer there. The Firefox browser saves downloaded files to the downloads folder by default. MR277 wrote: ⤴ Sat 4:43 pm I have found a solution, at least for the moment, in a page in askvgĢ) find the _to_download_panel preference, that is "true" by defaultģ) Change it to "false", and the browser revert to the "unoptimized" (and much better) way it worked before. ![]() Perhaps you should not have introduced something which seems to be not related to the topic especially with a not linked "I saw someone" which I didn't quote because it had no real sense.Ģ) I wanted to help that person and maybe others in this very thread with a suggestion which may have been useful or not (I'm no guru but I've been confronted to this situation myself and do the test and search about what I'm presenting, even if it may not be a general recipe)ģ) I was polite suggesting a misunderstanding and you were not suggesting a "theory" of mine which is only the Mozilla Knowledge base quoted I don't understand why you got on your high horse :ġ) the other thread you refer to is not linked. Please stop quoting me to explain something which has no relevance to my situation. You are welcome to go post in the comments of the other thread and explain your theory about the setting to the person who said it didn't work for them, but that comment does not apply to anyone in this topic. As I have already stated twice in this topic, the fix does work for me. I am not the person for whom the fix did not work. However, I will check it again as it is possible I skimmed through the comments too quickly. SMG wrote: ⤴ Sat 5:42 pm I saw someone mention in the comments that the fix did not revert the change on where the file was saved. ![]()
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