Disable Automatic Virus Scan In Mozilla Firefox 3.5

NO doubt Mozilla is the most used internet browser of all times .Plus with the new version of Mozilla 3.5 you get many feature , more reliability ,more flexibility.We can use private browsing in it ,which automatically deletes time session when you close Mozilla.
One of the interesting feature is disabling automatic virus scan which happens after Mozilla has downloaded a specific file.This is done to ensure that your computer is protected from viruses.

But in some cases if we want to disable virus scan after downloading of the file here is how to do it.

1. Open a new tab in
Firefox and type about:config. You will be prompted with a message that changing the settings could be harmful and click the button “I’ll be Careful, I promise”

2. Next type “browser.download.manager.scanWhendone” in the filter, you can also search by the word scan. The scan is enabled by default as you can see it set to true.

3. Double click on the entry and it will be changed to false. Now on
Firefox will not scan any files downloaded.

Easy Isn't it.

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