Oct 21, -. Kanishka Dutta. Nov 20, -. Google must have changed their settings page. There are no auto-open options near the download setion. Dec 11, -. Jan 09, -. Mar 12, -. Aug 15, -. Jim Mooney. Not in the Download settings anymore. I am forced to go through their crappy player Every Time, when I want to dl a bunch of mp3s. Screw Chrome. I'm going back to Firefox. I'm tired of fighting a "option" they haven't fixed in years. Aug 17, -. Billy Schlotter. You are right Jim, it is not in the download section anymore.
We will update this post to reflect that. You can know just right click on the downloaded item and either uncheck or check 'Always open files of this type. Oct 13, -. A download link will start an automatic download regardless of the browser. Our site does not start a download till the download button is clicked. The best solution is to know what you're clicking on and making sure you have an anti-virus installed that will scan each downloaded file.
Oct 15, -. Nov 16, -. Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help. I recently reset Firefox. Before whenever I downloaded a file, it automatically prompted me if I wanted to open the file or save it to my computer, with saving it to my computer preselected.
The option "do this automatically for files like this from now on" was useful for the rare file type that I would want to open automatically usually because it's a very small music file or something. Now every time I download virtually any file type, the prompt comes up with 'open the file' preselected, and "do this automatically for files like this from now on" greyed out.
As a result, on more than one occasion, I have mistakenly clicked ok and opened huge files automatically after downloading which has resulted in them popping open even hours later and playing automatically once the download finished. I'd like to be able to select "save it to my computer" and have it do this automatically, but that option is greyed out. I'm still prompted for each and every file I download, still preselected to open the file, with the "do this automatically for files like this from now on" still greyed out.
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