User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 Firefox/2.0b2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 Firefox/2.0b2 This has been raised before but the issue still exists in Firefox 2 beta 2. The user should have the open to open an exe without saving it first like IE does. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Download an exe 2. 3. Actual Results: Gives you the option to save file Expected Results: Should give you the option to save or open.

(In reply to comment #0) > This has been raised before but the issue still exists in Firefox 2 beta 2. The > user should have the open to open an exe without saving it first like IE does. It's not an issue, it's by design. Also, please search before filing bugs. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 204838 ***

I did search and did say "This has been raised before". I still haven't found a reasonable explanation as to why this feature isn't included. It's not a security issue as there is no difference from me clicking open in the browser dialog or by saving it and then clicking open.