On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 at 20:35, Tixy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2022-10-05 at 10:09 +0100, Mick Ab wrote:
> > A few days ago Debian 11 was updated. As part of that update > > Firefox was updated to Firefox 102.3.0 esr (64 bit). > > > > It has subsequently been found that this version of Firefox does not allow > > email attachments to be opened. > > Firefox is a web browser, not an email program, so I assume you mean > mean downloading files from a web page (in this case, one which you use > to access your email). > > > Clicking on such an attachment used to always open a dialogue > > box which had options "Open with..." and "Save...." but now it just jumps > > straight to a Download box with a list of folders to download to. > > > > Has anyone else experienced the above problem ? > > > > Can anyone please suggest a way to get round the above problem > > and allow email attachments to be opened rather than downloaded ? > > Have you checking the Firefox settings, in the 'General' section there > are options for what you want Firefox to do when downloading files. > > You can select what to do with specific file types, and there's a > default setting for other file types, under the heading "What should > Firefox do with other files?" I confirm seeing a similar but opposite behaviour change and solution. In general, I want Firefox to download files, not open them. After the recent upgrade, I experienced that this behaviour changed when handling attached files in a webmail client (roundcube). To restore downloads I had to go to 'about:preferences' (aka Settings > Files and Applications > Applications) Where there is a table with headings 'Content Type' and 'Action', and I had to change several rows to Action='Save File' to restore behaviour similar, but not the same as, previous. Depending on the filetype of the attachment. So Mick might need look through all the different content-types in the table and make appropriate changes, as well as considering trying the "other files" setting.
