How do I enable Firefox (3.0.19) to open office documents as read-write vs. read-only?

When opeing any office type document (open office for example) from a webpage/collab folder it always opens as read-only. Is there a setting or attribute to change the behavior to open it as read-write?
I have read-write privileges to the (tmp) directory/folder it saves it to.

Researching further, I've found you can change this behavior very similar to Thunderbird.
1) Open a new tab
2) Type "about:config" in the url window
3) Confirm the security warning
4) Search for "browser.helperApps.deleteTempFileOnExit" and if you find it, double click it and set the value to False.
5) If you don't find it, right click into the main area, choose "New" > "Boolean", add "browser.helperApps.deleteTempFileOnExit" as name and choose "False" as value.
As cor-el highlighted if you make edits and don't 'save as' to an appropriate location you risk losing your edits! So beware.
The reason opening as read-write is valuable to me is; I'm in a lot meetings reviewing information (from a central source) in spreadsheets etc... and it's very convenient to be able to change column widths, apply a different 'sort', do a 'data pilot' etc... only for use while I'm in the meeting without having to save the file. My company has tight restrictions on disk space so not having to save the file and then remember to delete it is a big win for me.

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