Web Browser Wednesday

Did you know that both Firefox and Opera come with shortcuts to make downloading files a quick and painless process? It’s true, but few people know about the shortcuts that can save oodles of time. Lets take a look at how we can trim some time off of downloading files in Firefox and Opera.

–Firefox–

In the Firefox Options there is a setting where you can designate a default location for files to be downloaded. Once enabled it will automatically download all of the files to this location without ever prompting you. Some people like this because it requires far less work since it bypasses all prompts, but you also don’t get to choose the designated name for the file from within Firefox.

It’s okay if you’re not one of those users who have it setup to automatically save files to one specific location, because we’ve got some tricks for you. Here are two ways that you can bypass being prompted for a location and file name on a per-download basis:

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