Firefox Save Image As Save Per Site Annoyance

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This behavior was introduced in FF7, associating a downloaded image with a folder on your harddrive.

FF7 Workaround: Apply the trick once a while when you want FF to use the general/last download directory and forget about all these useless directories it memorized. It is easy to apply : Select Tools | Option and choose Privacy tab, Click on "clear your recent history", Time range to clear : choose Everything (last option in the listbox), Click on Details (if necessary), **Uncheck** all options **except** Site Preferences (thus only Site Preferences is checked at the end).

result: inconclusive

source: Save Image As keeps changing directories

FF8 Workaround: Apparently the issue was addressed by the addition of an option to disable this behavior. 

* Tools, Options, and Privacy Tab
* uncheck "remember download history"

You can also uncheck "remember my browsing history" for privacy purposes.

result: inconclusive

FF11 Workaround: about.config 

browser.download.lastDir.savePerSite

browser.download.lastDir.savePerSite controls whether the directory preselected in the file picker for saving a file download is being remembered on a per-website (host) base. If set to true, the data is stored as content preference.

values:

  • true (default) - The last used directory for the website (host) serving the file for download will be preselected in the file picker. If no download directory for the current website has been stored, browser.download.lastDir will be used.
  • false - The last used directory for any download (stored in browser.download.lastDir) will be the preselected directory in the file picker.

This has been discussed on Firefox Help on the thread, Save image doesn't remember last location saved for Firefox 7, page 3 mentions browser.download.lastDir.savePerSite.

update: issue still not resolved. this bug is persistent. with value set to false, ff version 14.0.1, sometimes the save directory changes (is not the previous one used) and seems related to the TLD URL, particularly noticeable with blogspot.com image saves.

update: testing concludes this glitch relates directly to "Site Preferences" browsing history. In an experiment, going to "Clear Recent History" and selecting only "Browsing and Download History" causes next save on stick site to be the default /download directory, which at first seemed related, until further testing revealed that only clearing "Site Preferences" had a specific and direct result; this will cause the "save as" to download to the last save as directory, even for TLD domains with the memory effect. If the user manually cleared only the "Site Preferences" each time, then the image save directory for specific sites glitch will not manifest. (In the experiment the browser was closed and opened again each time after clearing.)

browser.download.lastDir.savePerSite and set the value to false DOES NOT RESOLVE THIS BUG! It might for some installations, but does not for our lab computers. Tested, glitch remains unresolved. ATTENTION FIREFOX DEVELOPERS! THIS NEEDS FIXED!

savePerSite URI is stored in a file named content-prefs.sqlite

related terms: browser.download.lastDir.savePerSite image save as

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