I explain how to prevent or disable all automatic behaviors, but you might find these behaviors to be convenient in most scenarios. For example, if you want to open a downloaded document in Word 99 percent of the time, it makes sense to have Firefox do that automatically. But what about those one or two documents you need to open in WordPerfect because Word can't handle them correctly? For these and other scenarios, Firefox offers a simple solution: the Save Link mechanism. Rather than clicking the link itself, you merely instruct Firefox that you wish to save the content to which the link points. This not only ensures that you can save a file without Firefox opening it, but also gives you the chance to save it to a location of your choosing. You can then open the file manually in whichever program you choose. 1. Right-click the link to the file you want to save and choose Save Link As to open the Save window. Tip You can also hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) and click the link. 2. Select the location to which you would like to save the file. You can also provide a new filename if you don't like the default provided by the Web site. 3. Click Save when you're finished. Although you can use the Save Link mechanism at any time, it is most useful for overriding default download behaviors.           Saving Web Sites Downloading files from Web sites is something most people who browse the Internet are familiar with. But what about downloading the Web sites themselves? Firefox allows you to save a copy of any Web site to your computer, like a digital snapshot of the site as it exists at that time. This provides peace of mind that you'll always have a copy of the page even if it disappears from the Internet - for example, if you write an online newspaper article that will stay up only for two weeks and you want to keep a copy of it. It also comes in handy when you want to save a copy of a long document to read on a plane or in other offline environments. 1. Visit the Web site you want to save. 2. Press Ctrl+S (or +S on a Mac) to open the Save window more quickly. 3. Select the location to which you would like to save the file. You can also provide a new filename if you don't like the default, which is provided by the Web site. 4. From the Save as Type drop-down list at the bottom, select one of the following options: Web Page, Complete: Instructs Firefox to save the entire Web site, including all images, colors, and designs. This option is the default, and it's the best option if you want Firefox to save an exact replica of the page to your computer. Firefox saves the main Web page file to the directory of your choosing and places all subsidiary files to a new directory called WebPageName_Files. For example, suppose you choose to save the CNN home page to a file called CNN.html in your computer's My Documents folder. Firefox would save CNN.html to My Documents as instructed and create a new subfolder called CNN_Files to hold images and other files associated with the Web site. You don't have to worry about reconstructing the page in the future; when you load CNN.html in Firefox, Firefox automatically does that work for you.