Why? All I do is tell FF in Options to ASK me where to download every time. Then I save it to my hard drive.

As to saving bookmarks, TC44 is right. THEN to make my IE bookmarks match, I delete everything in my Favorites and then import it from FF. Also I use Foxmarks which is a FF extension to keep my bookmarks somewhere else. It synchronizes between computers. That way the ones on my desktop and the ones on my laptop MATCH. Liz