If you have to download multiple files, such as RAR archives, in the same folder, Firefox will ask you where to save each file. Going through the same menu for every file is a waste of your time, so ...
What you are describing is most certainly not the default behavior of winrar. When you use winrar and give it a path it will write directly to that location. This is easily verified with filemon.
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