Re: Default file upload folder

Neil wrote:

>
> Richard Newsum wrote:
>
>> Neil wrote:
>>
>>> Richard Newsum wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am happy that FF 'remembers' where I like to put my downloaded
>>>> files (usually in my \download\ folder) so that I don't have to work
>>>> my way around the folder tree every time.
>>>>
>>>> I think it would be an improvement if I could also choose a default
>>>> folder from which I upload files to websites such as Facebook and
>>>> exercise logging sites. I find it quite irritating that the file
>>>> upload dialog always starts at the 'desktop' from which it takes
>>>> several clicks to reach the file to be uploaded.
>>>>
>>>> In short: I want to be able to choose the default folder for file
>>>> uploads.
>>>
>>> As far as I can tell, this is supposed to work already. See
>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524408
>>
>> According to that discussion, yes, it's suppposed to work already, and
>> even better than I described. But FF19.0.2 (on W7) isn't working that
>> way here!
>
> Well, that is strange. Maybe you accidentally turned the feature off.
> Can you try it out in a new profile?
> http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-and-diagnose-firefox-problems#w_7-make-a-new-profile
> (Or maybe one of the other solutions listed there will help you.)
>
Thanks, Neil. Yes, with a new profile it does work as described in that 
Bugzilla thread.

Now, apparently there's a way to disable that nice behaviour, as I seem to 
have done just that, so I would presume there's a way to re-enable it. Can 
anyone help me find it? I've looked in the Options and in about:config but 
found nothing.