Ubuntu 20.04, Firefox pdf save dialog

[Keith]

On 5/3/22 12:54 AM, Josef Wolf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I open an PDF in firefox, there is a buttton in the top right corner to
> save the file. When I click this button, a dialog opens which allows me to
> save the file.
> 
> In older version, this dialog was a separet window. The new dialog darkens the
> open document and is placed in the middle of the document, hiding most of
> it. When I try to move this dialog out of the way, the surrounding window with
> the darkened document is moved.
> 
> How would I get the old behaviour, so that this dialog woud be opened in a
> separete window which I can move around undependently from the document
> window?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 

Type "about:config" in the addressbar; click Ok you know what your 
doing; type "download" in the search bar to view download settings; 
toggle the setting "browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel" to 
false and "browser.download.panel.shown" to true and that restores the 
old download panel dialog. I also have 
"pref.downloads.disable_button.edit_actions" set to false, but I think 
that's related to another annoying quirk the new Firefox introduced.

-- 
Keith