![]() ![]() Note that the _to_download_panel will only be there for a limited time (i.e. If Mozilla ever does decide to remove this function, I can guarantee you'll see a lot of business use drop to other web browser options. I have to open sometimes over 100 generated spreadsheets a day from our system, and getting rid of the option to just open the file instead of downloading it and opening it from a folder with thousands of files is just not an option for me. Besides the issue of having to download everything you try to open in a singular folder of basic trash you have to hunt for (files generated have randomly generated file names making it very difficult to find the one you need to open), it adds extra unnecessary steps to open said files. It makes it less viable for businesses to use as their preferred browsers. This would be a horrible decision on the hands of the Mozilla team if they do remove it. during the development of a feature) and can be removed at any time in the (near) future like happened with the print.tab_modal.enabled pref.ĭepending on disabling such a feature via its control pref isn't recommended to avoid getting caught when this workaround no longer works. '''WARNING: Changing preferences through this interface not officially supported'''Ĭor-el said Note that the _to_download_panel will only be there for a limited time (i.e. Read this answer in context □ 13 All Replies (16) That includes security and performance testing which these preferences may affect.Īlso, "There are two use cases for downloading and opening files and the devs have decided to choose for the case that prevents data loss for users that want to make changes to downloaded file", sure, but why not let the user choose the desired behaviour in the settings panel? Let's hope they don't remove this option from about:config in a future version. ![]() Mozilla does not test these preferences, and will not in the future. Hidden settings edited using the about:config tool are explicitly not supported, which means that Mozilla makes no guarantees they will be supported in the future, or that Mozilla will fix them if they break. ![]() WARNING: Changing preferences through this interface not officially supported I wasn't asking why is it happening, I already know, I was asking how to fix it to make it work like before, which I found out by the way, just go to about:config and set _to_download_panel to false. ![]()
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