When ordering using paypal in magento, it takes you to paypal, paypal already displays a confirmation, you confirm, you get redirected to another confirmation page (/paypal/express/review), it is an extra step that is unnecessary for user experience, I would like to remove it and make the order automatically placed when user confirm on paypal page, once leave paypal if order successful the customer should see the success page.
is there any easy solution to this I might have overlooked or at least if you can point me to the right direction to remove that step.
Don't use Paypal Express; use Paypal Standard if you don't need this feature. Paypal Express is a checkout method and not a payment method.
This is now configurable in 1.9.