In Firefox 4, how do I change the download directory Firefox starts in when it “asks me every time”?

Question

Here's my situation: I'm running Firefox 4 (Beta 12) in Red Hat Linux. I have the following settings:

• "Ask me every time" where to download files; and
• Don't remember download history

I want to keep these. However, when I click a link to download, and FF brings up the "Enter name of file to save to" dialog, that dialog defaults to ~/Downloads. I want to change that default to another directory. How can I do this?

Please note that I am not asking how to change FF's settings to automatically save all files to a particular directory. I still want FF to ask me where to save files, I just want to change the directory that the dialog defaults to.

Many thanks.

Answer 1

1. In about:config, change the browser.download.lastDir setting.

2. Add this line to the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/user-dirs.dirs file:

   XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/whatever"
   

   ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaults to ~/.config)