One of the new changes in the latest Firefox update I dislike is the new download manager. I don't care for the way that it displays the information, or lack thereof, and actually prefer the older method that could open in a separate window. After some looking around, I found the method to revert the downloader to the old style and it worked very well. Thought I would pass it on to anyone interested.
- Enter the configuration settings of firefox by typing the following in the address bar: about:config
- Confirm that you indeed will "Be careful" lol
- Navigate to the item labeled: browser.download.useToolkitUI
- Change the setting of this item from "false" to "true"
- Enjoy