how to stop firefox on repeatedly opening new tab on downloads?
its annoying how my firefox repeatingly opening new tabs when i open a downloaded file especially an excel file. since i'm downloading tons of excel file a day for my work
All Replies (4)
Try to use the right-click context menu and use "Save Link as" if you are currently left-clicking the link. Firefox doesn't know that you want to down;load the file and first opens a new tab.
You can also consider to set this pref to true on the about:config page and hold down the Alt key when left-clicking.
- browser.altClickSave = true
You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.
cor-el மூலமாக திருத்தப்பட்டது
doesnt solve the problem
Firefox shouldn't open a new tab when you use "Save Link As".
Did you try to use this item in the right-click context menu?
How does the server send these files?
- https://developer.mozilla.org/Tools/Network_Monitor
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/live-http-headers/
Are they opened in the new tab if you left-click or do you get an empty page with the open with download dialog?
Another user reported a "blank tab left behind" problem when downloading MP3 files in this thread: Firefox keeps opening new tabs when I download files. Refreshing Firefox will temporarily halt that, but the problem returns the next day I boot up. A workaround was to disable the multiprocess feature, as described in that thread. Could you test that?