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Someone at @firefox thought that *BLOCKING* the [ENTER] key from confirming the 'SAVE' of a content is a good idea ... think again - its garbage/bullshit - bring it back before it backfires more ...

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Those generally are there because someone has figured out a way to atack your computer. Like, get someome playing a Web game and slamming enter and then pop up a dialog right in the middle so that you inadvertently confirm doing something unpleasant to your computer. The secure setting is probably the right default for most users.

https://superuser.com/questions/1023643/firefox-disable-delay-on-download-dialog-buttons

Go to about:config (type into address bar) and set security.dialog_enable_delay setting to 0.

Note: disabling this delay may in theory open you to some pretty non-standard security attacks described in this article (as Otiel pointed out), but I wouldn't lose sleep about it.

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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1273640

[–] zackhow@programming.dev 3 points 16 hours ago

Thank you, this is exactly what this setting is there for.

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 11 points 1 day ago

Works on my machine. Is this about the file browser dialog? That depends on your OS or DE.

[–] Simplicity@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is usually a time delay before the button is enabled. At least on Windows.

[–] vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe 1 points 22 hours ago

@Simplicity

I disabled the 'delay' years ago - even documented it here - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/03/18/sensible-firefox-setup/ - right now - the [ENTER] key DOES NOT WORK AT ALL - no matter how many times You press it - its just blocked.