Firefox 98 released
Firefox 98 released
Posted Mar 10, 2022 15:51 UTC (Thu) by karkhaz (subscriber, #99844)In reply to: Firefox 98 released by cesarb
Parent article: Firefox 98 released
> The same issue when opening in an external viewer: instead of downloading the file to a transient temporary location where it'll get cleaned up after a while, it's silently downloaded to ~/Downloads (even if you have configured Firefox to always ask where to save downloaded files).
> That is: they are now treating ~/Downloads as if it was a temporary directory managed by the browser, instead of letting the user manage it.
> That is: they are now treating ~/Downloads as if it was a temporary directory managed by the browser, instead of letting the user manage it.
Confirmed, I get the same behavior. This annoying but at least you can choose the directory---it doesn't have to be ~/Downloads. I've made it ~/tmp, which on some of my computers is mounted on a tmpfs and others not. (I also long ago deleted ~/Downloads and `chmod a-w ~`, so programs that don't respect XDG can't write to my home directory anyway).