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Firefox is saving torrent files in downloads when told to open them.

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Firefox is saving torrent files in downloads when told to open them. It uses the correct program to open them too, but I don't need it to be saving them, it creates a lot of clutter. Any idea how to correct this? It didn't use to do this.

Firefox is saving torrent files in downloads when told to open them. It uses the correct program to open them too, but I don't need it to be saving them, it creates a lot of clutter. Any idea how to correct this? It didn't use to do this.

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There is a temporary 'fix' which may help.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1370494