Firefox downloads PDF files to home directory when viewing

12 Apr
2022
12 Apr
'22
10:20 a.m.
Hi everyone One annoying new feature that showed up in Firefox recently is that it downloads PDF files to my home directory rather then /tmp when I'm only viewing them. The following thread discusses this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1370409 All you have to do is go to the configuration ("about:config" in URL bar) and change the following option to "false: browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 (office) +64 (7) 577-5304 (home office) https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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