Re: Download manager - too big!

Peter Weilbacher <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > Is there any way to prevent the download manager window being so big
> > when you open it?  Also I don't really want all that history.  I much
> > preferred the old download wondows that just showed what you were
> > doing *now*, is there any way I can the old behaviour back?
> 
> If you are talking about Seamonkey and not Firefox: Edit -> Preferences
> -> Navigator -> Downloads and there select "Open a progress dialog". The
> downloads are still logged in the Download Manager and downloads.rdf,
> though. I regularly delete that file before starting Mozilla.
> 
I'm talking about basic Firefox on Linux and Solaris.

> Btw, the Download Manager window size might be something that your
> window manager messes with.

The size of the window relates to the number of dowloads you've done
as far as I can see.  Unless you click 'Clean Up' it just gets bigger
and bigger, thus by default it will be the whole height of your
screen.

Surely one should be able to set a preference which deletes completed
downloads from the list, to my mind that should be the default really,
why would I want to know about old, completed downloads?

-- 
Chris Green