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I wish they put some effort into making Firefox better.

To me, lately Firefox has been a pain in the ass to use. Regular silent updates that forces me to restart the browser and close all my work. Saving my session doesn't always help to continue working where it was interrupted.

The latest change to the downloads is horrible. Sometimes my work requires me to download hundreds of files that I only want to open with some software for several seconds, then dismiss it. Now instead of being able to open it directly from the browser, I have to watch how everything is saved in my downloads folder and then waste my time deleting all those files manually.

I'm not paying them any money. I don't want to waste my money only to see their executives getting richer without anything in return.

> The latest change to the downloads is horrible.

  about:config
  browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel false

...will revert to the old behaviour.

That's the first thing I did. It doesn't revert to the old behaviour.

It's documented to do so, and it works for me.

What part isn't working for you?

It just doesn't revert to the old download.

As I said, the first thing I did when I saw the release notes was checking how to go back to the old settings. I tried that on 2 computers, both using linux (Ubuntu and PopOS), without any luck.

It doesn't ask me anymore what if I want to open the file or save it.

I walked into this trap yesterday as well. The reason being, they also changed many of my settings regarding application handling. While before that change, it was "Always ask" across the board, after the update, many file types were set to "Save File". So in addition to the about:config setting you should also check what is set for specific file types and revert that to "Always Ask".

This is the kind of change, if there were competition, I would have stopped using Firefox for good.