Firefox 4 with watir webdriver: Need help using helperApps.neverAsk to save CSV without prompting

Question

I learned how to use Firefox 4 with watir and webdriver (on Win7 x64), setting profile items. Example:

profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
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Answer 1

In Firefox 6+, I couldn't get this to work without specifically setting the 'browser.download.folderList' value:

profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
profile['browser.download.folderList'] = 2 #custom location
profile['browser.download.dir'] = download_directory
profile['browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk'] = "text/csv, application/csv"
b = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => profile

See: http://watirwebdriver.com/browser-downloads/