[SOLVED] firefox "open with" option missing from d

Has anyone noticed that, in firefox 2, the "Save/OpenWith/Cancel dialog has changed to only "Save/Cancel" (with no option to open the file with a particular application)?
For instance, clicking on the first "Excel" file type on this Web page only gives me a Save or Cancel option. With firefox 1.5 there was an additional option for "Open With". In other words, there is no way I can instantly open the document with Open Office using a temporary location. I have to first save it to my home directory and then open it with Open Office or something.
When using firefox 2 with Web-based email clients like Yahoo! Mail, it's annoying that I can't just instantly open attachments (like PDFs). Instead, I have to first save everything.
Is there something I can change in about:config to get back the 1.5 behavior?

No, I already checked my firefox preferences. The preferences explain the behavior of Excel files (set to always save). But, for me, the "Open with" option went missing for PDF attachments and some other unknown binary file types.
I have PDFs set to open with acroread in FF preferences, so that seems okay. Nothing in the filetypes configuration has changed. In fact, the PDFs work okay (with acroread plugin) when I click a PDF link on a random web page. It just doesn't work in email attachments like in gmail (and, it used to before). It used to be that it would give me the "Open With" dialog and I'd open the document with acroread (external application, not the plugin). Now, it forces me to save or cancel. I noticed it happens with some other unknown binary file types, too (I thought these were also supposed give me the "Open with" option).

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