firefox downloads - changing location?

[Dave Stevens]

Hi,
I use Firefox to browse journals and regularly click on links to .pdfs (among 
others.) If I open with X (some program) the file seems to be transferred 
to /tmp rather than to the designated downloads directory. Does anyone know 
how I can change this behaviour to have all file transfers go to the 
downloads directory?

Dave
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral 
philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for 
selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith