I just noticed that when I rightclick on the Firefox icon in the Windows taskbar it shows every file I've ever downloaded over the years.
How do I get rid of this problem?
Peter wrote:
I just noticed that when I rightclick on the Firefox icon in the Windows
taskbar it shows every file I've ever downloaded over the years.
I don't see downloads on the "jumplist" just frequent websites, and
under a dozen rather than several thousand!
How do I get rid of this problem?
Settings > Personalisation > Start
you could try turning off the option for recent options in start, jump
lists and explorer? Then turn it back on and it might start as empty,
no idea why it should "go mad" and store thousands though ...
On 28/09/2023 09:25, Andy Burns wrote:
Peter wrote:Open Firefox, Ctrl J, History/Downloads at the top.
I just noticed that when I rightclick on the Firefox icon in the Windows >>> taskbar it shows every file I've ever downloaded over the years.
I don't see downloads on the "jumplist" just frequent websites, and under a dozen rather than several thousand!
How do I get rid of this problem?
Settings > Personalisation > Start
you could try turning off the option for recent options in start, jump lists and explorer? Then turn it back on and
it might start as empty, no idea why it should "go mad" and store thousands though ...
Delete away.
I just noticed that when I rightclick on the Firefox icon in the Windows taskbar it shows every file I've ever downloaded over the years.
I can remove a file by right clicking first on the Firefox icon in the taskbar and then rightclicking on the item and then clicking on "Remove
from this list" but there are thousands of them.
There doesn't seem to be any setting inside of Windows or Firefox that I
can find to delete them all. I can't find where this list is stored.
And I don't want every single file I've ever downloaded to show up in that list in the first place since I don't need to know this information.
Is it a Windows problem?
Or a Firefox problem?
How do I get rid of this problem?
On 9/28/23 09:31, this is what MikeS wrote:
On 28/09/2023 09:25, Andy Burns wrote:Odd. Ctrl-J and Ctrl-K both put me in the URL search bar at the top.
Peter wrote:Open Firefox, Ctrl J, History/Downloads at the top.
I just noticed that when I rightclick on the Firefox icon in the
Windows
taskbar it shows every file I've ever downloaded over the years.
I don't see downloads on the "jumplist" just frequent websites, and
under a dozen rather than several thousand!
How do I get rid of this problem?
Settings > Personalisation > Start
you could try turning off the option for recent options in start,
jump lists and explorer? Then turn it back on and it might start as
empty, no idea why it should "go mad" and store thousands though ...
Delete away.
I can get history->downloads from the library icon I put on the toolbar
but not with ctrl-J
In Linux that is.
I just noticed that when I rightclick on the Firefox icon in the Windows >taskbar it shows every file I've ever downloaded over the years.
I can remove a file by right clicking first on the Firefox icon in the >taskbar and then rightclicking on the item and then clicking on "Remove
from this list" but there are thousands of them.
There doesn't seem to be any setting inside of Windows or Firefox that I
can find to delete them all. I can't find where this list is stored.
And I don't want every single file I've ever downloaded to show up in that >list in the first place since I don't need to know this information.
Is it a Windows problem?
Or a Firefox problem?
How do I get rid of this problem?
How do I get rid of this problem?
Does it look like this ?
https://i.postimg.cc/W32CCX8G/firefox-right-click-taskbar.gif
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
How do I get rid of this problem?
Does it look like this ?
https://i.postimg.cc/W32CCX8G/firefox-right-click-taskbar.gif
Yes. This is what it looks like https://i.postimg.cc/9FVPvH6M/Clipboard.jpg
It's mostly PDFs but I deleted scores and scores and scores of them and
more show up with each deletion. It seems to know every PDF I've ever downloaded.
All the settings people are suggesting don't have any effect.
How did YOU get rid of all those Firefox entries once and for all?
All the settings people are suggesting don't have any effect.
How did YOU get rid of all those Firefox entries once and for all?
In the security and privacy section of FF. Delete history when closing FF.
Odd. Ctrl-J and Ctrl-K both put me in the URL search bar at the top.
I can get history->downloads from the library icon I put on the toolbar
but not with ctrl-J
In Linux that is.
Click the hamburger menu at top right and see what key sequence it shows against Downloads.
MikeS <MikeS@fred.com> wrote:
Odd. Ctrl-J and Ctrl-K both put me in the URL search bar at the top.
I can get history->downloads from the library icon I put on the toolbar
but not with ctrl-J
In Linux that is.
Click the hamburger menu at top right and see what key sequence it shows
against Downloads.
I think it's something in Windows more than it's something in Firefox.
I don't think there is any setting inside of Firefox which controls this. https://i.postimg.cc/9FVPvH6M/Clipboard.jpg
Every delete and don't save option in Firefox has long ago been set. https://i.postimg.cc/JzSXdS5M/Clipboard01.jpg
There is nothing in the firefox download history (and there never was). https://i.postimg.cc/65rB6q9d/Clipboard02.jpg
If you don't see this issue, you'll probably never be able to understand it but it seems that Paul has the same issue - so he might figure it out.
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
How do I get rid of this problem?
Does it look like this ?
https://i.postimg.cc/W32CCX8G/firefox-right-click-taskbar.gif
Yes. This is what it looks like https://i.postimg.cc/9FVPvH6M/Clipboard.jpg
It's mostly PDFs but I deleted scores and scores and scores of them and
more show up with each deletion. It seems to know every PDF I've ever downloaded.
All the settings people are suggesting don't have any effect.
How did YOU get rid of all those Firefox entries once and for all?
Does it look like this ?
https://i.postimg.cc/W32CCX8G/firefox-right-click-taskbar.gif
Yes. This is what it looks like https://i.postimg.cc/9FVPvH6M/Clipboard.jpg >>
It's mostly PDFs but I deleted scores and scores and scores of them and
more show up with each deletion. It seems to know every PDF I've ever
downloaded.
All the settings people are suggesting don't have any effect.
How did YOU get rid of all those Firefox entries once and for all?
Apparently, the control for this is in the wrong place.
Instead of being a control for the TaskBar, it's a control for a Start Menu (which it is not).
Google sez...
*******
" Go to Settings > Personalization.
Step 2: Click Start in the left pane and then switch the option ¡V
Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on
Start or the taskbar from on to off.
"
[Picture]
https://i.postimg.cc/kMBZQDgw/recent-frequent-disableby-Settings-Personalize-Start-bottom-item-W10.gif
Paul
How do I get rid of this problem?
Settings > Personalisation > Start
My Windoze settings from hitting Start with right click: Settings > Personalisation > Start and that has the *Default* radio button
chosen... with all four possibles below as *Off*... and all entries in
the Folders side-opening pullout likewise all *Off*.
If you don't see this issue, you'll probably never be able to understand it >> but it seems that Paul has the same issue - so he might figure it out.
It's a Windows 10 setting that's in the wrong place. See other post.
I got mine to switch off, so there's no reason to be trashing
the History on Firefox to make it stop :-)
4. It's the Jump List! https://i.postimg.cc/FH4Fftcn/Clipboard03.jpg
5. Turn that sucker off!
Given that it seems to be working the same for you, as it does for me
(i.e. only displaying a handful of entries in the 'Recent' jump list,
what makes you think it's wrong?
When you say it's "only displaying a handful of entries", I don't think
you have as many as I do - where mine displays about ten entries - but -
if you delete those ten - another ten will show up - and if you delete
that ten - another ten after that - and if you delete those - ten more
will show up.
Peter wrote:
I just noticed that when I rightclick on the Firefox icon in the Windows >>taskbar it shows every file I've ever downloaded over the years.
I don't see downloads on the "jumplist" just frequent websites, and
under a dozen rather than several thousand!
How do I get rid of this problem?
Settings > Personalisation > Start
you could try turning off the option for recent options in start, jump
lists and explorer? Then turn it back on and it might start as empty,
no idea why it should "go mad" and store thousands though ...
Peter wrote:
When you say it's "only displaying a handful of entries", I don't think
you have as many as I do - where mine displays about ten entries - but -
if you delete those ten - another ten will show up - and if you delete
that ten - another ten after that - and if you delete those - ten more
will show up.
Mine shows seven, all of them web sites (such as BBC, wayback machine, >youtube, amazon) not specific downloads, if I delete one, it disappears
and nothing else takes its place (until I visit a site or two)
Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:
All the settings people are suggesting don't have any effect.
How did YOU get rid of all those Firefox entries once and for all?
In the security and privacy section of FF. Delete history when closing FF.
Do you see the problem on your Windows Firefox taskbar pinned icon or not?
When you say it's "only displaying a handful of entries", I don't think
you have as many as I do - where mine displays about ten entries - but -
if you delete those ten - another ten will show up - and if you delete
that ten - another ten after that - and if you delete those - ten more
will show up.
Mine shows seven, all of them web sites (such as BBC, wayback machine, youtube, amazon) not specific downloads, if I delete one, it disappears
and nothing else takes its place (until I visit a site or two)
On 29/9/2023, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
I do not use such crappy OSs. But this is not relevant because FF reactsDo you see the problem on your Windows Firefox taskbar pinned icon or not? >>All the settings people are suggesting don't have any effect.
How did YOU get rid of all those Firefox entries once and for all?
In the security and privacy section of FF. Delete history when closing FF. >>>
the same for all OSs.
Why did you respond then when you had nothing to offer?
On 29/9/2023, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
I do not use such crappy OSs. But this is not relevant because FF reactsDo you see the problem on your Windows Firefox taskbar pinned icon or not? >>All the settings people are suggesting don't have any effect.
How did YOU get rid of all those Firefox entries once and for all?
In the security and privacy section of FF. Delete history when closing FF. >>>
the same for all OSs.
Why did you respond then when you had nothing to offer?
Do you see the problem on your Windows Firefox taskbar pinned icon or not?All the settings people are suggesting don't have any effect.
How did YOU get rid of all those Firefox entries once and for all?
In the security and privacy section of FF. Delete history when closing FF. >>
I do not use such crappy OSs. But this is not relevant because FF reacts
the same for all OSs.
Are those PDFs being downloaded speculatively to get the Web page to
load faster? When that happens, are they downloaded into a temporary directory?
I am aware that in order to display a PDF in Firefox, it's download
first to a temporary directory then displayed. Therefore I have it set
to save PDFs. If I want one, I manually download it to avoid the
download into the temporary directory of the ones I don't want.
about:preferences > General > Applications > PDF > Save File
Is there an indexing process in the temporary directory taking place
which is the reason why these file names display in the jump list? Isn't there a way to tell Windows 10 not to index certain directories? I'm
guessing that's what the underlying issue is.
I'm not using Windows 10, just Windows 8.1.
Paul's shows mostly files. Yours shows mostly web sites. Mine shows
mostly PDFs.
Am 29.09.23 um 22:00 schrieb Frankie:
On 29/9/2023, Jorg Lorenz wrote:
All the settings people are suggesting don't have any effect.
How did YOU get rid of all those Firefox entries once and for all?
In the security and privacy section of FF. Delete history when closing FF.
Do you see the problem on your Windows Firefox taskbar pinned icon or not?
I do not use such crappy OSs. But this is not relevant because FF reacts >>>the same for all OSs.
Why did you respond then when you had nothing to offer?
BTW:
Only antisocial Trolls post over such anonymous idiot-servers:
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"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
Are those PDFs being downloaded speculatively to get the Web page to
load faster? When that happens, are they downloaded into a temporary >>directory?
I don't know what you mean in this context by "speculatively", but I do
have my Firefox always set up to NEVER open anything "special" itself. >https://i.postimg.cc/65swZqZr/Clipboard06.jpg
I am aware that in order to display a PDF in Firefox, it's download
first to a temporary directory then displayed. Therefore I have it set
to save PDFs. If I want one, I manually download it to avoid the
download into the temporary directory of the ones I don't want.
about:preferences >General > Applications > PDF > Save File
The only files Firefox can open up without asking are images & videos. >Nothing else.
I suspect everyone does this because it's the right thing to do.
From a safety standpoint and from a utility standpoint it is.
You only need to tell Firefox to open the correct app for each file type.
For PDF files, it will be a bona fide PDF reader or writer application.
Why deal with the limits and security implications of opening all the file >types in a web browser which can't do the file type its proper justice.
Is there an indexing process in the temporary directory taking place
which is the reason why these file names display in the jump list? Isn't >>there a way to tell Windows 10 not to index certain directories? I'm >>guessing that's what the underlying issue is.
I'm not using Windows 10, just Windows 8.1.
I don't know how to answer this last question because I only know that I >don't want every file I've ever downloaded showing up in that jump list.
1. The problem set https://i.postimg.cc/9FVPvH6M/Clipboard.jpg
2. It's not Firefox settings https://i.postimg.cc/JzSXdS5M/Clipboard01.jpg
3. It's not Firefox history https://i.postimg.cc/65rB6q9d/Clipboard02.jpg
4. It's the Jump List! https://i.postimg.cc/FH4Fftcn/Clipboard03.jpg
5. Turn that sucker off! https://i.postimg.cc/NjMJkF1y/Clipboard04.jpg
6. Turn everything off! https://i.postimg.cc/wjrJvLy7/Clipboard05.jpg
7. Open images/videos only https://i.postimg.cc/65swZqZr/Clipboard06.jpg
I'm using Windows 10.
Peter <confused@nospam.net> wrote:
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
Are those PDFs being downloaded speculatively to get the Web page to
load faster? When that happens, are they downloaded into a temporary
directory?
I don't know what you mean in this context by "speculatively", but I do
have my Firefox always set up to NEVER open anything "special" itself.
https://i.postimg.cc/65swZqZr/Clipboard06.jpg
It appears that your operating system logged an instance of having
opened or downloaded that long list of PDFs that you hadn't opened
manually. I'm guessing that a background process within Firefox
downloaded certain PDFs that appeared on Web pages you viewed into a temporary directory on your host speculating that you might wish to view
them later.
A Web page includes lots of files and media that the user isn't aware
of and doesn't view manually. Much of the Web page gets downloaded into
a temporary directory, including the files and media, in case you end
up wanting to view this stuff later or scroll to that part of the Web
page. It makes it appear to the user that the Web page loaded more
quickly because so much activity has taken place in background before the user views it.
I'm guessing that the operating system notes that this is happening. It
logs some of these as recently viewed files including files that you had
not manually opened later because they were loaded with the Web page.
It's my understanding of the way Firefox works is that a PDF is
speculatively downloaded if the Action setting is Open in Firefox or
Always Ask, but Save File prevents the speculative downloading.
I am aware that in order to display a PDF in Firefox, it's download
first to a temporary directory then displayed. Therefore I have it set
to save PDFs. If I want one, I manually download it to avoid the
download into the temporary directory of the ones I don't want.
about:preferences >General > Applications > PDF > Save File
The only files Firefox can open up without asking are images & videos.
Nothing else.
I suspect everyone does this because it's the right thing to do.
From a safety standpoint and from a utility standpoint it is.
You only need to tell Firefox to open the correct app for each file type.
For PDF files, it will be a bona fide PDF reader or writer application.
Why deal with the limits and security implications of opening all the file >> types in a web browser which can't do the file type its proper justice.
I agree. That's why I use the Save File setting where appropriate. For
any number of file types, I don't want to open the file in Firefox even
if Firefox is calling an outside application to do so.
Is there an indexing process in the temporary directory taking place
which is the reason why these file names display in the jump list? Isn't >>> there a way to tell Windows 10 not to index certain directories? I'm
guessing that's what the underlying issue is.
I'm not using Windows 10, just Windows 8.1.
I don't know how to answer this last question because I only know that I
don't want every file I've ever downloaded showing up in that jump list.
1. The problem set https://i.postimg.cc/9FVPvH6M/Clipboard.jpg
2. It's not Firefox settings https://i.postimg.cc/JzSXdS5M/Clipboard01.jpg >> 3. It's not Firefox history https://i.postimg.cc/65rB6q9d/Clipboard02.jpg
4. It's the Jump List! https://i.postimg.cc/FH4Fftcn/Clipboard03.jpg
5. Turn that sucker off! https://i.postimg.cc/NjMJkF1y/Clipboard04.jpg
6. Turn everything off! https://i.postimg.cc/wjrJvLy7/Clipboard05.jpg
7. Open images/videos only https://i.postimg.cc/65swZqZr/Clipboard06.jpg
I'm using Windows 10.
In Windows 8.1, if I allow file indexing, I can control which
directories are indexed. I think there's a separate indexing process
that creates the Recently Viewed file list and the process that pins
recently viewed files to the start menu/taskbar.
In Windows 10, which I don't use, there may be a compromise setting
between turning off indexing files that you won't look at again and
indexing such files to maintain a list of a more reasonable length.
If there's still a Recently Viewed directory in Window 10 like 8.1, a
long list of shortcuts, you could rename it to see if this is the basis
for those lists of files that you see, or if it's an entirely separate indexing process.
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