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.

  • lw6352@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    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

  • LetsGOikz@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      about:config

      You may search for temp.

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