[Solved]Opera 42 stop "Save as" prompt at download.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I just reinstalled Win 10 pro and a new copy of Opera (42.0.2393.94). Now every download is interrupted with a Save As prompt using windows file explorer. Mostly it has the download directory correct -- but not always, and if I'm not attentive my download can wind up in some other place, like Documents. This happened in recent versions but only for exe files, and then it stopped. How can I stop this behavior? Something in Flags?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Is 'Ask where to save each file before downloading' disabled?

To disable the download prompt when downloading executable files you can disable opera://flags/#prompt-on-risky-download but always remember that a flag can go away at any time.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Thanks for the info. But. . . It was already set to "default" (disabled). I changed it explicitly to disabled and restarted Opera. No change, still does it. Oh well.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Ok. Didn't take the first, second and third times. Fourth was good. Thanks again.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

It was already set to "default" (disabled).

You mean the flag? At least here the default is 'enabled'.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

You are probably right. I may have misread it. Anyway, all is good.