On 31/05/2022 23.59, stan via users wrote:
On Tue, 31 May 2022 22:52:16 +1000 Eyal Lebedinsky fedora@eyal.emu.id.au wrote:
firefox 100.0.2
I set up a temp dir in about:config browser.cache.disk.parent_directory /data/Firefox_temp At no point did I see any activity there but if I empty that directory then FF creates it on launch, so it knows about it.
You are setting up a personal directory under /? What permissions does it have? Are you running SELinux, what is its context? Wouldn't this be more appropriate in your home directory?
I also don't find that setting in my about:config, in the system firefox or nightly. How are you creating it?
Here is what I do:
Open the URL http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/ Click on PDF file (304K bytes) A popup asks "What should Firefox do with this file?" - I have "always ask" set for this file type in Settings/General/Applications at this point I see a new file in my home directory -rw------- 1 eyal eyal 308839 May 14 17:33 _qBdbX0t.pdf.part I now select Open with xpdf and click OK The above random file disappeared and another file appears -rw-r--r-- 1 eyal eyal 308839 May 14 17:33 gzip.pdf I now close firefox and this file remains. I restart FF and it is still there.
On another machine the file is created in ~/Download.
How do I get FF to use the nominated directory?
When I use the settings you are using, the file appears in the download directory I have selected in edit -> settings. It remains after I have viewed it, which I think is a questionable action. When I have the setting at open with firefox, the file doesn't appear anywhere, so it is probably in some temporary cache file that goes away when the tab is closed.
So I guess the answer to your question would be to use edit -> settings -> general -> Dowloads to set /data/firefox_temp as your download directory.
Strangely this worked, even though this option is deselected: [ ] Save files to /data/Firefox_temp [*] Always ask you where to save files Somehow FF uses this disabled setting, and even before I choose between "open with" and "save file".