Comments on: Getting Firefox to Use Leopard’s Download Stack

By: JordiCruz

JordiCruz — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:12:22 +0000

I found the solution to this by changing the download setting in CAMINO (another mozilla browser).

Download camino, open preferences, set “Save downloaded files to: Downloads”

It works.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:45:37 +0000

That’s not very hard: Open the Finder, go to your home directory, then click and hold the “Downloads” folder that’s in there, drag it onto the dock, and let it drop. This creates a stack.

By: Hailey

Hailey — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:52:26 +0000

I accidentally deleted the downloads stack… how do i get it back?

By: 10 Things I hate about Leopard | Rick Tech

10 Things I hate about Leopard | Rick Tech — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:37:06 +0000

[...] is a real pain. It’s cool if you’ve only got a couple of items in it, but if you use Firefox or like me have 30+ items in it that need to be filed, looked at or deleted, it’s hard to [...]

By: dan

dan — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:08:06 +0000

Worked for me too. Great tip! Now I can use Firefox again. Yay!

Maybe someone should notify the Firefox dev team of this fix.

By: jaywest

jaywest — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:53:06 +0000

I was having this same problem but finally fixed it with a post I found on the Apple Discussion Forums:

Try this!
Go to User/Library/Preferences and delete com.apple.internetconfig.plist (you can save it on your desktop if you want to replace it). Restart Firefox and test it.
it worked for me.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5666281&#5666281

By: Forrest

Forrest — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:51:10 +0000

I’ve tried changing all related about:config settings for download as well as for the helperApp, but Firefox still doesn’t react to changes to either its download folder or to the safari download folder, and it won’t give me a save to dialouge. The only way I can download anything is by right-clicking. This just started when i upgraded to Leopard. Is there a fix? I’m running 2.0.0.8 at the moment.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:21:36 +0000

You’re very welcome — always glad to help

By: GameGod

GameGod — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:37:42 +0000

In hindsight, this was sort of obvious, but I still needed to Google to figure it out. Thanks for the post!

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:52:45 +0000

dan: The behavior is the same as you describe for me here on OSX Leopard, so Henrik’s workaround may not work for the new version anymore. IIRC, there’s an open bug for Minefield to change the temp folder to the download folder too.

Henrik: Christmas market? Now we’re talking!