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Firefox AND Chrome refuse to download anything except in Downloads folder

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This is Ubuntu 22.04, x86_64. Any download I make from either browser just isn't done, and silently. It just proceeds, does not show me any error message, and no file appears. When the selected folder is the default Downloads folder (I configured both browsers to ask), the download happens normally. Smells like a security thing, but there's no user feedback.

In Firefox, I tried setting browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel in about:config to False. No effect.

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answered 2 Years ago utilitere · Accepted Answer

I ended up following directions similar to these:

sudo snap remove firefox

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa

Then put the following in /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla-firefox:

Package: *

Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam

Pin-Priority: 1001



Package: firefox*

Pin: release o=Ubuntu

Pin-Priority: -1

Then

sudo apt install firefox

The .deb is at version 100 now and it works perfectly well. Downloads to anywhere too.