Try to right-click the link and use "Save Link As" in the right-click context menu instead of left-clicking the link.

Hi cor-el,

Thanks! That works brilliantly, I feel silly I didn't come up with that.

But it's a workaround, lots of clickidyclick. I'd like to be able to click the link for a direct download - one click, blue arrow, all done.

So for now I'll use the save link as workaround but I'd still like to know about this new tab business. Is that normal? Why does it happen? Can I disble it?

cheers from Bass Rock

ps cor-el, now I keep wondering and googling: Jaffa? Remebered that correctly?

Pity no-one has an answer. The workaround 'save link as' is even slower than the direct download.

Look at it this way. Firefox is a Hummer H1 and eats up my whole garage. On top of that, I can't drive it properly because it won't go any faster than 20 km/h. If I try to change cd's, the Hummer comes to a complete stop and I have to wait until the cd is loaded before I can drive again. If I try a workaround, say use my music on a usb drive, it takes even longer before I can drive again.

I am abandoning Firefox and will try to get a browser that behaves more like a Fiat Seicento with a decent cd player.

Also abandoning this question, like everybody else. So long Firefox and you can keep the fish.

On Windows you could use Alt left click if browser.altClickSave is true, but Alt doesn't work as a modifier on Linux (only Shift and Ctrl work), so the only way to achieve this on Linux is what I posted above. Maybe there is an extension that works on Linux.