How to get a warning from Firefox before you close when downloads are in progress?
Solution 1:
Try to set the value of browser.download.manager.quitBehavior
at Firefox about:config
. It can be set to these values. To get a warining you should set it to 2.
Source: support.mozilla.com
Solution 2:
I'm using DownThemAll! addon and even if I close Firefox, the download window remains open as a separate window. This prevents me from stopping my unresumable downloads accidentally.
Solution 3:
You may also want to consider to set browser.warnOnQuit
and browser.showQuitWarning
in Firefox's about:config
to true
to get a warning when closing the browser, not only when a download is in progress. This might save you some headaches when you accidentially try to close Firefox and were typing text into some input boxes for example. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.warnOnQuit.
Solution 4:
Actually, browser.download.manager.quitBehavior
doesn't exist anymore; it has been removed in recent FF versions.
One (slightly clunky) workaround is to go to Downloads
-> Show all downloads
when you're downloading something big you may forget about. It will show a new download window, independent from FF. But you have to remember beforehand.
The missing preference is just screaming for a bug report, though.