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Firefox has for a long time required multiple presses of the enter key to save a file. I would like to change that to be a single enter key press always automatically acts in a deterministic manner to actuate the save button.
I'm sure this change by Firefox is one of many that Mozilla has implemented to protect users from themselves (Another thread explaining that same setting in Firefox). Obviously, I don't think I need to be protected from myself so I want to find whatever setting in about:config is responsible for this and turn it off.
Sometimes when I am downloading a file, I want to rename it, so when I am done typing in the new filename, I like to hit enter. Sometimes that enter clicks on the "save" button, sometimes I have to press enter up to 4 times. Sometimes it doesn't matter how many times you press enter, it doesn't ever save the file.
Waaaaaay back in the day, this was the default for all sorts of programs. It used to be the default way Firefox behaved too.
I do have several extensions to Firefox, as well as DirectFolders, but I have encountered this problem before using most of those softwares.
YetAnotherRandomUser
Posted 2017-03-03T18:28:29.790
Reputation: 1 494
1I'm encountering the same troubles. As explained in the answer below, we can disable the delay before the OK button becomes enabled. So this fixes part of the issue. However, in the dialog itself, I'm used to press Enter; most of the times it works, but sometimes it doesn't work. Quite irritating… – Gras Double – 2018-10-13T13:12:34.540