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how to get preview of a link in gui

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when i click a link it directly downloads but i need a preview of the page attached to the clicked link before going for download.

when i click a link it directly downloads but i need a preview of the page attached to the clicked link before going for download.

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Go to the Mozilla Add-ons Web Page {web Link} (There’s a lot of good stuff here) and search for what you want.

There used to be such an add-on.

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Hello ranjitklitaCBI,

Just in case the above doesn't solve your problem; would you please take a look at the article :

Change what Firefox does when you click on or download a file

Especially the section :

"Preview in Firefox : Select this if you want Firefox to display the content. It's only applicable to a limited number of types, those that Firefox is able to decode such as Portable Document Format (PDF). "

But maybe this doesn't even come close to what you are looking
for .....