[PLUG] recent versions of firefox no longer use /tmp when opening files

[Galen Seitz]

Hi,

As of Firefox 98, when you open a file, it doesn't use /tmp.  I vaguely 
recall seeing news of this, but it really didn't register at the time.

<https://lwn.net/Articles/887162/>

In the past few days I noticed that my Downloads directory was cluttered 
with *many* pdfs that I had no intention of keeping around.  This caused 
me to investigate further, and I stumbled upon this *huge* discussion 
under a mozilla bug.

<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1738574>

To summarize, many longtime users were not pleased with the new 
behavior.  After much back and forth, the developers relented and added 
an about:config setting to allow for the old workflow.  If you are like 
me and want the old behavior, I recommend reading comment 133, where the 
new config setting is explained.  I believe this new setting was added 
in version 102.

TL;DR, set browser.download.start_downloads_in_tmp_dir to true to get 
the old behavior.


galen
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