You are so right. I got confused somehow.Anyways, this seems to be a pretty neat workaround for when the time of removal comes: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/s3syt6/comment/i8er2mk/
Please give us back the option to only open downloads. Do not force us to download them all the time. My download folder is flooding with crap (again, after you seem to have disabled the effect of about:config > browser.download.improvements_to_downl...
Ohh no, can it be that they disabled the about:config workaround in version 100? I lived so happily with the "unimproved" download panel for the last few weeks after I discovered the solution to this "feature". Does anybody know new solutions?