Firefox is an amazing browser with lots of features and support for 3rd party addons. But with lots of features, comes little annoyances that you hardly even notice. But it there. Such is the default download manager window. Whenever you start a download, the download manager window pops up, distracts you, takes away focus and requires your action to minimize it. I personally find it very irritating. I just need to know my download progress whenever *I* feel so. If you are also the one getting annoyed by the little download manager window, here’s a quick tip:

1) Open Firefox and navigate to ‘about:config’.

2) In the ‘Filter:’ box, type in ‘download.manager’ and you will get all the configuration options related to download manager.

3) Double click ‘browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting’ to change its value to ‘false’.

You’re done. Now whenever you click a download link, the download will be done silently and in case you want to see the download progress then click ‘Tools’ > ‘Downloads’ or simply Ctrl+J.

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