Control the Way Firefox/Mozilla (FF) Works When Downloading ScoutPalDB Updates

You will want FF to give you a chance to specify a target download location, and to stop after the download completes so you have a chance to figure out where FF put the downloaded file.  If this option is not enabled, FF's download will finish silently, and unless you're already familiar with FF's download behavior, you might not know where it put the file!

Step 1.  To change FF's download behavior, you will need to get to FF's Tools / Options control panel.  (If you don't see a way to click Tools / Options in your FF window, right-click the top of FF until you can find a way to enable its Menu Bar.  Then click Tools / Options from the menu bar.)  Click the General choice. Checkmark "Show the Downloads window when downloading a file", and UN-check "Close it when all downloads are finished".  Then select "Always ask me where to save files".  Or, you can select "Save files to", and use the [Browse...] button to specify a constant, fixed target location for all your downloads.   But if you do this you will need to remember the target location, and you won't get the chance to specify any download's target location.  Step 2 assumes that you have selected "Always ask me..."

Step 2.  Now you can go to the DB update page, and begin your download.  After you click a download button, FF will ask you if you want to open or save the file.  You don't want to "open" it, you want to "save" it to a known target location, so select the Save option.  (It is highly recommended that you do not check "Do this automatically for files like this...", or you will lose control of this kind of download.)  Click the [OK] button, and a standard Windows Save dialog window opens, with the download file name filled in.  Don't change the name.  But do look carefully at the Save window controls, and you will find various ways to specify exactly where you wish to put the downloaded file.  For example, you can select "Desktop", which is recommended as it is an easily-accessible location.

When you are satisfied that you understand and know exactly where the download is going to go, click the [Save] button, and FF will begin the download process.  You might get a warning that the file already exists.  This is not an error message, you have done nothing wrong.  Windows is just asking you to confirm that you want to replace the old file.  Of course you do, so click the [Yes] button.  A download progress window comes up, giving you a continual estimate as to how long the download will take.  (Download speed depends on the quality of your internet connection and current traffic on the internet.)

Step 3.  When the download completes, the FF download progress window will display an icon for the downloaded file. You can right-click this icon to get some choices.  DO NOT select the top "Open" choice, instead select "Open Containing Folder" to open a window to the target download location.  Or, you can close the progress window, and navigate to the target folder on your own.  For example, if you downloaded to the desktop, it's probably easier to just close the download progress window and simply bring up the desktop on your own.  In any case, you don't want to click the Open choice, you want to instead open the containing (target) folder, or navigate to the target folder on your own, then work with what you just downloaded from there.