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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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Kajika@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] LetsGOikz@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Am I missing a reason for such a change?

They wanted to fall in line with what all the Chromium-based browsers do.

That said, there is a way to get it to start asking you what to do with files again (though I don't remember how), but it still always saves the file to your Downloads folder (because that's what Chromium-based browsers do) which there is no option to change yet as far as I'm aware. To be honest, I'm not sure they ever will implement that as a feature, but I really hope they do because I hate having to go manually cleaning out my downloads when just letting me dump them to a temp dir would make life so much easier.

[–] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago

about:config

You may search for temp.

And the option regarding saving could possibly be discovered via querying for ask : )!

[–] lw6352@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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