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When I download something with Firefox, it show the progress but when it's finished, the file that i downloaded dissapears.

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While downloading something with Firefox, i can see the file in the downloads folder while it's downloading but as when it's complete, the file dissapears.

While downloading something with Firefox, i can see the file in the downloads folder while it's downloading but as when it's complete, the file dissapears.

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It is possible that your anti-virus software is corrupting the downloaded files or otherwise interfering with downloading files by Firefox.

Try to disable the real-time (live) scanning of files in your anti-virus software temporarily to see if that makes downloading work.

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It is possible that your anti-virus software is corrupting the downloaded files or otherwise interfering with downloading files by Firefox.

Try to disable the real-time (live) scanning of files in your anti-virus software temporarily to see if that makes downloading work.

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Thank you very much. I disabled the firefox virus scan by setting the browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone to false in about:config.