video [Tutorial] Restore Firefox Download Dialog Box

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Quick Tip to get the Open / Save Download Box back in Firefox

The other day when updating to Firefox 98.0 there was something I noticed for the download process had been changed. In the release notes it mentioned about changes being made to "optimize" in this regard, which alters the way files are downloaded.

Quite frankly I'm getting a bit frustrated at every other Firefox version needing to find a solution to set something back as I'm familiar.

So then eager to restore the prior method which I was used to, it led me to finding a simple about:config preference which restores the old download dialog as previously I've known for many years. Then I decided to make a quick video showing this.

As follows:

 

Hopefully this might come in handy for anyone else wondering about this too.

-CB