I want to open online files, not download everything I click.

This question applies to both Safari & Firefox.
I search for online files to help me with school, could be PDF, PowerPoint, etc.
When I click on a file it just downloads them. I want to open 1st and see if I even want the thing.
With Windows, it would open and save in a temporary folder and I could save the file if I liked it. With my new Mac, it's just saving everything I click on then I have to go delete it if I didn't like it.
Any settings to fix? Safari and Firefox doing this.
I do have MS Office for Mac so when I click on these Power Points I do have the right programs.
Thanks in advance.
Message was edited by: medrep

I tried the right click but it just opened a new window to save the file.
There has got to be a way to open the file online to a temp without saving it.
Just to clarify, with Windows if I found say a PDF I was interested in but not sure I wanted to download, my choices with Windows would be Open file using Adobe Reader or Save File.
I could open it without saving it, and if I didn't like the file it wouldn't be saved on my hard drive. (It would in a temp folder, but that got automatically deleted.)
With the Mac, I have to download everything I click on and then open the file and then if I don't like it, delete it.

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