Hi,
As of Firefox 98, when you open a file, it doesn't use /tmp. I vaguely
recall seeing news of this, but it really didn't register at the time.
<https://lwn.net/Articles/887162/>
In the past few days I noticed that my Downloads directory was cluttered
with *many* pdfs that I had no intention of keeping around. This caused
me to investigate further, and I stumbled upon this *huge* discussion
under a mozilla bug.
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1738574>
To summarize, many longtime users were not pleased with the new
behavior. After much back and forth, the developers relented and added
an about:config setting to allow for the old workflow. If you are like
me and want the old behavior, I recommend reading comment 133, where the
new config setting is explained. I believe this new setting was added
in version 102.
TL;DR, set browser.download.start_downloads_in_tmp_dir to true to get
the old behavior.
galen
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