Firefox Downloads Window Needs Work The Firefox downloads window is not useful. It tells me what files I have downloaded, which is fine, and it gives me two options: Open and Remove, for each download.

Open does just what it says; it opens the file that I downloaded. Personally, I think this is dangerous. I download a lot of software. There's no way I'm going to launch software that I just downloaded (which Open does) without first running a virus check on it. So, to do that, I have to open Windows Explorer and navigate to my download folder and find the file, then, I can run the virus check and if everything is ok, I can launch the software.

Why should I have to go through all that? Why doesn't the Downloads window have an option to open the containing folder? Firefox knows where it put the file, just let me get to it easily. This is one area where Internet Explorer really got it right.

The second option in the Downloads window, Remove, isn't very useful either. It removes the filename listing of the download from the Downloads window -- it doesn't do anything to the actual file on your hard disk. It's ok that it does that, I just think it's misleading. I would expect it to delete the file from the disk.  ¶ 2:27 p.m.