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- 1). Open the Firefox browser, then move the cursor into the address bar (location bar).
- 2). Type "about:config" (omit the quotation marks) into the address bar and press the "Enter" key on your keyboard. Wait for your Web page to advance.
- 3). Click the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button on the "This might void your warranty!" page. This is just the obligatory warning message.
- 4). Type or copy and paste the following line of text into the "Filter" field, without quotation marks: "browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone."
- 5). Double-click on the setting when it appears in the pane below the Filter field. "True" will change to "False" in the "Value" column and the text font will turn from normal to bold, meaning that the antivirus scan has been turned off. Exit out of the Firefox browser, then restart it.
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