Comments on: Temporary folder for Firefox and Thunderbird on OS X

By: Henrik Skupin

Henrik Skupin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:17:16 +0000

There is some ongoing work and it will hopefully get fixed in the near future. Sorry that I cannot give more information about. But this issue still needs someone who is willed to fix. Any contribution is highly welcome!

By: IPv6Freely

IPv6Freely — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:02:17 +0000

Hi there!

Thank you for the workaround. I was able to download safari 2.0.4 and change the download directory to a temp directory without issue. Why they make the default behavior to save PDFs to the desktop is absolutely beyond me. If I want to save the PDF to my desktop, I will click SAVE. (what a novel concept!)

Thanks again!

- IPv6Freely

By: Henrik Skupin

Henrik Skupin — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:06:07 +0000

Arnav, we should discuss it outside of this blog post. You can just give me a reply via mail.

By: Arnav

Arnav — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:58:44 +0000

A quick (unrelated) question since you are a Mozilla + Mac OS X user. I’m having trouble opening Office 08 attachments using Thunderbird. The app opens ok when I double-click attachment, but with a blank (or no) doc/spreadsheet/presentation.

A strange file named “dftmpOJLFOFEMlkkkkkkk——–” labeled as text, but not openable using TextEdit also appears with every download.

Any ideas? Would greatly appreciate feedback (if any).

By: Arnav

Arnav — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:23:37 +0000

This is great. Thanks much for posting - I was going crazy trying to figure something out to reduce the clutter.

By: Henrik Skupin

Henrik Skupin — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:06:51 +0000

Yes, that’s the one I mentioned in my post. But it’s not working at all. Probably if you are using hibernation mode temporary files are getting lost after wake-up and closing Firefox. I’ll have a look at this part within the next days again.

By: Boris

Boris — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:45:47 +0000

There’s a hidden preference to clean up the temp files on exit.