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[ILUG] firefox tmp files ?

[ILUG] firefox tmp files ?

Gavin McCullagh ilug_gmc at fiachra.ucd.ie
Tue Apr 20 10:27:38 IST 2004


On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Declan Grady wrote:

> Being a bit short of local disk space, I download stuff from mozilla-firefox 
> to a samba mounted directory on another box.
> Apparently firefox stores the downloaded file into my local /tmp and then 
> moves it when complete to the destination directory - This is failing, as my 
> tmp doesn't have enough free space to store it.
> 
> Is it changeable (sp?) to a mounted directory ?

type:
	about:config

in the address box.  
Type 
	tmp 

in the filter box that appears at the top.  The first setting on my list
(in firefox) is applications.tmp_dir which seems like it's probably what
you want.

Gavin

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