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Magritte

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Jul 14, 2007
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Los Angeles, CA
Now I know what you're going to say. First: "Google it," and second, "It's right there in the general preferences!" Except my problem is a little weird.

If I download something and Firefox asks me what to do with it, and I tell it to save it, it does go into the Downloads folder that I specified in those preferences. However, if I download a .zip file, for example, and Firefox wants to just open it, both the file and whatever was in it end up getting saved to the Desktop.

In other words, "Save to" always goes to my preferred folder, but "Open with" puts the file(s) on the desktop.

What am I missing?

And yeah, I've tried searching Mozilla's help database but can't find this exact answer. Thanks.
 
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