Today, many of the daily activities of the human being are carried out through the Internet, with a computer or a mobile device. Therefore, many of these daily activities require the use of the download function on our computers.
In reference to this, many people ignore the fact that the destination of their downloads can be changed. This is because unloading something is such a daily task as drinking water or walking. That’s why in this article we will teach you how to change the folder path of download Mozilla Firefox in your browser.
In addition, we will explain how to find the downloads folder Mozilla Firefox and what to do to select a destination folder for each file we download.
How do I change the download folder path in Mozilla Firefox?
The first thing we need to do to change the folder is download in Mozilla Firefox it’s really simple, we just have to open the browser. Once there we will go to the 3 stripes icon which is located at the top right of the screen called ‘Open menu’. Doing so will open a window with various options.
There you have to locate the option called ‘options’, this is the third option in the fifth block of this tab. Once we click on it, a new tab will open, which will show us all the settings we have in Mozilla Firefox. Once there we will go down to find the part that says ‘files and applications’.
In that option called files and applications, we will see the ‘download’ block as the first option. Below downloads we will always see two options, one called ‘Save files to’ and next to it will appear the downloads folder, this option is checked by default. The other option is called ‘Always ask where to save files’, which is usually always off.
In order to change the folder where our downloads go, we must click on the option called ‘browse’. Doing this will open a pop-up window in our file browser, where we can select the folder to which we want our downloads to go. When selecting the destination folder we want, for example, the document folder, the option would be this way ‘Save files to Documents’.
On the other hand, in the case of activating the option ‘Always ask where to save files’, each time we download a file in Firefox, a pop-up window will open. In this window we must select the specific folder where we want it to be downloaded.
How to find Mozilla Firefox download folder?
Finding the folder where our downloads are stored via Firefox is a really simple task. The first thing we need to do is click on the three bar icon in the upper right corner from the screen of our Mozilla Firefox browser. Clicking will open a pop-up window with several options. Now we have to locate the third option of the fifth block, called ‘options’, when we press it, a new tab will open. This tab will contain all the configuration options of our Mozilla browser.
Being there, we will go down to find the section called ‘Files and applications’ and we are in the first option called ‘downloads’. There we can see an option that is activated called ‘Save files in’ and the name of the folder to which our downloads go. On the other hand, in case we want to change the destination of our downloads, we will give the option ‘examine’ and select a folder of our preference.
On the other hand, we have the option of ‘always ask where to store’ which will allow us to choose the destination of the download, each time we download a file.
What to do to select a download folder in each file?
Now that we know how to change the default destination of everything what we download in Mozilla Firefox, let’s talk about how to do it with each file. Being able to choose the destination folder for each of our downloads in Mozilla Firefox is an easy task. As mentioned above, we must go to the 3-bar icon at the top of the screen.
Once there, we will click to display a pop-up window with different options, we will select the one that is as third option in the fifth block called ‘options’. This will open a new tab with all Mozilla configuration options.
Now, being there we will go down to the option section of ‘files and applications’, there in the download block we will see two options. The options are ‘Save files to’ which is enabled by default and ‘Always ask where to save files’ respectively. All we have to do is enable the second option, this way, every time we want to download a pop-up tab will open that will tell us to choose in which folder we want to save the file we download.
In external hard drive folder
When downloading to a folder on our external hard drive, the first thing we need to do is have the external hard drive connected to our computer. Once that is done, we must have the ‘always ask where to save files’ option enabled our Mozilla Firefox browser.
Once that is done, the moment we download any file, a pop-up window will appear asking us where we want to download that file. At this point, we need to find a folder that we know is on our external hard drive and accept it. With that the download would be done directly to our external hard drive.
Internal hard drive
Now, the procedure for downloading to the internal hard drive is really similar. The first thing we need to do is enable the ‘Always ask where to save files’ in the settings of our Mozilla Firefox browser.
By doing this, every time we download something from our browser Mozilla Firefox will open a pop-up window in which we can choose the destination of preference for our download.
