How to stop mp4 auto downloading

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He never misses an opportunity to get on his bike and enjoy a ride. Oct 21, -. Kanishka Dutta. Nov 20, -. Google must have changed their settings page. There are no auto-open options near the download setion. Dec 11, -. Jan 09, -. Mar 12, -. Aug 15, -. Jim Mooney. Not in the Download settings anymore. I am forced to go through their crappy player Every Time, when I want to dl a bunch of mp3s.

Screw Chrome. I'm going back to Firefox. I'm tired of fighting a "option" they haven't fixed in years. Aug 17, -. Billy Schlotter. You are right Jim, it is not in the download section anymore. We will update this post to reflect that. For more information you can refer the article Features currently not available in the new Microsoft Edge.

I understand your requirements, and I would suggest you to provide feedback and our engineering team will look into this for you. However, if your download folder is filling up with the videos, then you can use Storage sense.

This will automatically free up space by getting rid of files you don't need, like temporary files and items in the Recycle Bin, when you're low on disk space or at intervals you specify.

I hope the information provided above will help you proceed further to resolve this concern. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. To do that configuration, you have to click on "Downloads" menu in the IDM's main GUI, and then select "Options", a new small window will appear, choose "File types" tab from it.

Now in the first text input box you can add or remove the file types you want. The second way is by specifying certain sites that IDM shouldn't automatically download from them.

You can find an input text box below the text box in the previous way which you can use for that purpose. Then enable Don't start downloading from web-players automatically option arrow 1 on the image and press OK. If you want to temporary disable IDM for single download you may hold Alt button while clicking on the download link to prevent IDM from taking the download. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?

Collectives on Stack Overflow. I will keep working with you until it's resolved. Thanks everyone for your help but this is VERY frustrating. Well, this option does not exist and I'm not going to spend my time reading article after article on learning what already should be a simple solution. In reply to TheeEdge's post on May 15, What happened? Files used to be much easier to manage.

That is no longer the case imo. Sumit Volunteer Moderator Volunteer Moderator. A subscription to make the most of your time. Try one month free.