Autostart cannot be disabled after sending links
Downloads start automatically after a countdown and the autostart setting cannot be turned off.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 21 October 2017 · last reported 24 February 2025
What's going wrong
Several users of this add-on say that links sent from Firefox to the download manager start on their own after about fifteen seconds, and some report long countdowns before a single file begins.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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