User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20070106 Firefox/2.0.0.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20070106 Firefox/2.0.0.1 If I download a file and it's set to open a helper app, I know that the download succeeded when I see the helper app open. When the taskbar button flashes, it's redundant, since I know the download succeeded, and I have to click it to get it to stop flashing. I know this is easily worked around simply by ignoring it, but this annoys me a couple of times a day. If there is an app that doesn't come to the front or flash when it's started, it can be seen that it downloaded by going to download manager. This is the exception, though, and the norm is that I find out that the downloaded completed when the helper app launches and then I see the taskbar flashing after I already know that the download succeeded. Please consider changing this behavior. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set an external application to be the default helper, and to launch automatically every time 2. Download a file 3. Wait for the download to complete Actual Results: The helper app launched and the download taskbar button flashed Expected Results: Just launch the helper app

Reporter - you've got a pretty old version of Firefox (2.0.0.6 has been out for some time). Please make sure you update (this however will not fix your issue).

we could probably determine if this is an exthandler download and not flash...

Shawn, if there's an easy and safe way to do it, we should probably try, as it would be nice to have.

Looking at the code, I'm not even sure we flash anymore, which would be a bug in of itself... :(

It does still flash, and I'd love to disable that annoying behaviour entirely. If you go through a site with a lot of images, and save many of them as you browse, your download manager window is just constantly flashing. Drives me nuts!