Firefox documentation specifies that when you click a link to download a file and select 'open', that it downloads it to a temp folder. While this is true on a Windows system, it is not in Yosemite. It automatically downloads to my Downloads folder, just the same as if I told it to download without opening.
the firefox documentation that says 'open with' saves to a tmp location is found at the following link:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-firefox-behavior-when-open-file
the idea is that when the dialog box pops up for a clicked link:
If I choose 'open with' and the selected application opens the file, it is saved to a temp location, whereas selecting 'save file' then automatically goes to downloads… or however else I choose to set it in the preferences of firefox.
the firefox documentations say that 'open with' goes to temp folder, but that is apparently only true on a windows operating system, not osx. If it's a big hackjob to fix this, i'll forget it, but if there's some 'about:config' line I can mod or something, that would be great. I've looked and found nothing quite obvious as of yet.
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