They made all other changes in lockstep with Chrome and I'm afraid that all you're getting is a bit of time at the cost of a long migration process. Mozilla is telemetrying my pants size, pinky primise not to sell it, while hobbling their browser by making old extensions not work, redoing the UI and generally aping Chrome to the point that they are indistinguishable. I moved off recently because they are really, really not that good at it. Specially when said feature could save your ass if you accidentally clicked something you didn't want to download. You tell me if a feature being changed permanently (it is not toggable unless you mess with the ever 'will-be-removed-by-next-version' about:config settings) can be justified by an argument that uses the word 'usually' in two sentences back to back. Having to click a second time for a download to start is usually unnecessary.
It is a potential security risk:įirefox no longer shows the dialog by default because downloads are usually intentional. It is not 'just' a matter of 'you will get used to it'. A recent update (FF 98) changed dramatically how files downloaded are handled.
Sadly firefox has its head up its own ass and listen to zero feedback when it comes to their 'it isn't broken, but we fixed it regardless' updates.
