Firefox 3 Most Annoying Feature

Firefox 3 makes a call to your anti virus software to scan your down loaded file.  This typically results in a double scan or an unnecessary scan when you trust the download source.

There is no intuitive way to disable this feature but thanks to gHacks I was able to find a configuration setting for this feature.

You can navigate to about:config in Firefox and double click the browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone to set its value to false.  No more time wasted scanning the file.

posted by Aaron Fischer on Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:54:20 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00) Comments [0]
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