On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 12:49:23PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
Does anyone else find the 'download manager' in Firefox really annoying? You have to actively clean up the old entries if you want it to stay sensibly small instead of occupying a huge chunk of screen.
What use is the download manager anyway? I really can't see any use for a history of past downloads.
I'd really much prefer the old download system whereby one got a little window popped up for each download which disappears for ever when completed (with the option of keeping it until you dismiss it yourself). By default it produces little screen clutter but it can cope with multiple, simultaneous downloads quite happily.
The new system is just a nuisance.
Well, you can get almost similar to the old system with Edit -> Preferences -> Downloads and turning on the ask where to save files, and tell it to close the download manager when all downloads are complete.
hope that helps,