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I can't say I have any idea what Windows will do, but on Linux, Firefox will create this directory on the fly. I've just reset this value to '/tmp/FirefoxFiles' to keep them all in one place, separate from /tmp where I actually do things with 'truly temporary' files.

FIREFOX DOWNLOAD LOCATION PDF

Lo and behold, when I clicked a PDF link, it opened, and it got downloaded to '/tmp'. I then changed the setting to ask me where to save files. I changed this, setting it to '/tmp' (I run Linux desktop). But, when I went into FF settings, I noticed that the 'Save files to' was set to 'Downloads'.

I have my preferences set up to ask where to save downloaded files. The folder Firefox saves in is defined by the 'default' download location. Now I get to see if I can disable this behavior and add it to the user.js that I copy into user's Firefox profile folders when setting up their systems. Storage Sense) and now Firefox is like 'nah, we'll save all these files you open in the browser into a folder you probably chose not to clean out on a regular basis'.

It took forever to get regular temporary file management in a Windows OS (i.e. If people want to save a PDF they open in a browser, there's already a way to easily do that rather than assuming that they always want everything they open in the browser to be readily retrievable later outside of the browser. Mozilla seems to constantly be enabling by default any new feature they come up with but that people aren't largely going to want (sort of like how they defaulted usage reporting to be enabled). This feature certainly sounds fine in the abstract but, in practice, it's just going to be a file management nightmare for most people. This makes me glad I switched over to Waterfox years ago (and, later, the Classic version thereof so that I could keep using certain addons) because of Mozilla increasingly making short-sighted changes like this and completely disregarding the concerns of their user-base in the process.

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