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Is there a reason firefox saves file you just want to open? It used to not be the case. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's been half a year now at least that this change was introduced and it's super annoying. I discover this behavior on MacOS many years but now this is happening in Linux. Because of that I really want to change browser.

Am I missing a reason for such a change?

Edit: to be clear I always setup Firefox to ask everytime what to do but the open option used to open the file without downloading it (or probably in a tmp folder somewhere) now with the open option you have the file in your download which misses the point of asking in the first place.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think this "improvement" is pretty poor - If I'm interpreting your post correctly, I think you can set:

browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel false

in about:config