Odd. I know IE always downloads to your %temp% directory first and THEN moves it to the proper destination, but I was under the impression that the Mozillas downloaded directly to their real destination drives/folders....
According to one guy, "Both Opera and Firefox download to the Local Settings\Temp, while IE downloads to the bowels of Temporary Internet Files\schmutz."
From a Metafilter post:
Go to "about:config". Search for the preference "applications.tmp_dir". If it's there, right click on it, select modify, and change it to the directory you want to use. If it's not there (it's not for me in Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 on Linux), right click anywhere, select New -> String, input "applications.tmp_dir" as the preference name, and the directory for the value.
It should work without restarting Firefox.
posted by Plutor at 4:35 AM on September 27
Ah, here's some more meat at »
www.mozilla.org/quality/ ··· mgr.htmlOnce of the biggest issues that affects download UI, including the download manager, is the fact that Mozilla starts downloading the file into a temporary location, rather than directly into the specified target location. This has resulted in a slew of behavioral and appearance issues.
* bug 55690: Spool file should be moved once the user picks a filename (saving a file creates a file before location is chosen)
* bug 129923 (meta): Bugs related to pre-saving files to temp directory
* bug 132456: Download manager appears for files being opened by helper applications
* bug 155426: Download manager broken on Mac OS X (trunk)
Bugs specific to this feature should reside in the Download Manager component of Bugzilla.
* Currently open bugs under Download Manager (Unconfirmed, New, Assigned and Reopened)
* Currently Resolved Fixed bugs under Download Manager (but not yet Verified)
* Bugs otherwise Resolved under Download Manager as Duplicate, WorksForMe, Invalid or Won't Fix (but not yet Verified)
Somehow the bug at »
bugzilla.mozilla.org/sho ··· d=129923 was reported in 2002 but is still classified as "NEW"!!
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