Recently I defined a new profile. When in that profile, and when clicking for example a link to a pdf file, I am not being asked whether to open or save it, although in Preferences/File Handling both "Offer to save the file" and "Ask whether to open or save the file" are checked. The save dialog appears, without any questions.

When I reactivate my previous profile then everything is as expected again. The content of mimeTypes.rdf is very different - manually copying that file from one profile to another would probably help (but I did not try that). But still, I do not understand why am I not asked what to do, when the option is checked. And why was/is everything as expected in my usual profile?

Any ideas?

The idea is that it became broken after new Gecko engines implemented in 7x.y versions.

You can manage them better through about:preferences url.

Most of the times might works better if you just remove the file type mime definition than setting a preference (ask, download).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/03/2019 12:59AM by JohnHell.

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JohnHell
You can manage them better through about:preferences url.

Most of the times might works better if you just remove the file type mime definition than setting a preference (ask, download).

Wow! I was completely unaware of that. Thank you very much!