Firefox setting: browser.download.lastDir.savePerSite

This setting is either random or I only notice it sometimes: Rather than remember the last used directory to save files, it will remember the last directory per website. It drives me nuts when I’m trying to save files for a project and I end up with stuff strewn in various project directories.

Anyway, to stop this behavior, head to about:config in the address bar and change browser.download.lastDir.savePerSite to false. (And it should be, but make sure the value is of type boolean.)

Now Firefox will simply remember the last saved-to directory regardless of which domain you happen to be on.