459594 - Option to Disable "Scanning For Viruses"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 393792

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[stenorman2001]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3

After completing a download in Firefox 3 it often takes a long time for the download to be removed from the Download Manager since it is being scanned for viruses.

This step seems to be a little unnecessary as most anti-virus programs will scan the application the each time it is accessed; many may have already scanned it as soon as the download completed anyway.

It would be nice if a user could goto the Preferences -> Main tab and check/uncheck a box that asks "Automatically scan downloaded content for viruses" or something similar.

Since you can already disable the scanning by changing the "browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone" property from true (the default) to false in about:config, the only changes required are to link that preference to a checkbox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Simply download a file with antivirus software installed
2. As soon as the file has finished downloading watch as the file is "Scanned for Viruses"

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

wontfix'ed in bug 393792

Note that the big problem is not the absence of this option in the GUI, it's the fact that the anti-virus software scans the file twice.