Can You Download Firefox On A Mac

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So if you’re the same way, it’s good to know that you can change where Safari, Firefox, and Chrome automatically put their downloads.

So for today’s article, let’s go over how to change the default download folder on the Mac!

Luckily, the process of changing the default download directory pretty similar in the three main Mac browsers.

Change the Default Download Location in Safari

  1. Open the Safari app and click on the Safari drop-down menu at the top left.
  2. Choose Preferences.
  3. Make sure General tab is selected and then change the File Download Location to wherever you want.


As you can see, I’ve got mine set to “Desktop,” but you can pick an alternate location with that “Other” choice. Clicking “Other” will bring you to the familiar macOS open/save dialog box, from which you can select any folder you want to use.
If you’re feeling really fancy, you could instead change that toggle shown in my second screenshot above to “Ask for each download,” which will mean that you can file away everything you download exactly where you want it to go, every time. While this is a nifty feature but it can get cumbersome to have to choose a download location for each and every download you do.

Change the Default Download Location in Firefox

With the Firefox browser, you’ll start the same way as you did with Safari.

  1. Launch Firefox and click on its named menu(i.e. the FireFox pulldown menu) in the upper lefthand corner.
  2. Select Preferences.
  3. Under the General tab, at the label: Save files to click choose and select the folder you want your downloads to go to.

Again, the “Always ask me where to save files” radio button you see above will make Firefox ask you each time you initiate a download.

Change the Default Download Location in Chrome

Google made it just a teeny bit harder to change your default downloads folder in the Chrome browser, but the steps begin the same way as the other two browsers.

  1. Launch Chrome and select the Chrome menu from the top of your screen.
  2. Select Preferences.
  3. Scroll down the settings on the side menu until you see Advanced. Click on it.
  4. Choose Downloads.
  5. Click on Change next to Location and select the folder you want your downloads to go to.

As with Safari and Firefox, there’s a choice to make the browser ask you where to put the file you’re downloading every time.
As Steve Jobs used to say, “Oh yeah, there’s one more thing.”

Mail also uses the Downloads folder to store attachments you save, so if you’d like to be really thorough, you could change that, too.

Click on the Mail pulldown menu at the top of Mail then select Preferences. Next, under the General tab, you can change the download location just as you can with the web browsers:
So now that you’ve got all of your browsers (and Mail!) set to do exactly what you need them to, you can go forward knowing that your Downloads folder will never get too cluttered and disorganized again. Getting things done is so much easier when you stay organized.

If you’re a Mac user and enjoyed this article, you might want to check out this TechJunkie article: How To Flush the DNS in Mac Mojave.

Do you have any tips or tricks for managing downloads on your Mac? If so, we’d love to hear from you in a comment below!


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This article explains how to download and install Firefox on a Mac.

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  • If you are updating from a previous version of Firefox, see Update Firefox to the latest version.
Make sure your Mac meets the System Requirements for Firefox. If you use an old version of OS X, see this article for more information:
  1. Visit the Firefox download page in any browser (for example, Apple Safari). It will automatically detect the platform and language on your computer and recommend the best version of Firefox for you.
    • Note: If you want to have a choice of the language for your Firefox installation, please visit the Systems & Languages download page instead.
  2. Click the green download button to download Firefox.
  3. Once the download has completed, the file (Firefox.dmg) should open by itself and pop open a Finder window containing the Firefox application. Drag the Firefox Icon on top of the Applications folder in order to copy it there.
    Note: If you do not see this window, click the Firefox.dmg file that you downloaded to open it.
  4. After dragging Firefox to the Applications folder, hold down the control key while clicking in the window and select Eject 'Firefox' from the menu.
  5. You can add Firefox to your dock for easy access. Just open your Applications folder and drag Firefox to the dock.
    Firefox is now ready for use. Just click on its icon in the dock to start it.

When you first start up Firefox, you will be warned that you downloaded Firefox from the Internet. Because you download Firefox from the official site, you can click .

Also, Firefox will not be your default browser and you'll be told about that. That means that when you open a link in your mail application, an Internet shortcut, or HTML document, it will not open in Firefox. If you want Firefox to do those things, click to set it as your default browser. If not or you are just trying out Firefox, click .

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