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How do I disable Alt+Click to download in Firefox?

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Mar 15, 20261403 views
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I'm using Firefox 7.1. As some of you may know, alt is used to highlight links without following or dragging them. But it interferes with the "alt+click to download" behavior. I tried setting to , but it doesn't work.

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Browser.download.saveLinkAsFilenameTimeout

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Fix for: How do I disable Alt+Click to download in Firefox?

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Firefox 13 introduced the preference in to enable or disable the Alt+Click download behavior. On new profiles, this is disabled by default. If you upgraded, you may have to manually set this preference to false. Note: As always with , a browser rest…

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