Firefox just started saving all files as firefox documents, why? how to fix?

It was actually working fine today.. but then it started doing this and it keeps doing this. Everytime I right click a link and hit save as. It ALWAYS saves it as a firefox document, no matter what it is. It can be a pic, an mp3, you name it and it saves it as a document. I tried typing .jpg at the end of files when I saved them and still that didn't do anything..
Please help. It's not doing this in internet explorer... But I don't like that browser lol

Try to delete [http://kb.mozillazine.org/mimeTypes.rdf mimeTypes.rdf] in the [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox Profile Folder]
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/File_types_and_download_actions#Resetting_download_actions
"Clear the Cache":
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