Add preference to disable pre-downloading
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(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)
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(Reporter: astralstorm, Unassigned)
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Please add a user preference to disable pre-downloading, as in download from save as/download dialog while target directory is not yet picked.
This is potentially relatively important for Tor browser or anyone who wants to use an encrypted drive as a target, while keeping temporary directory unencrypted.
Current pre-downloading also causes problems if temporary directory is on a small filesystem and multiple big downloads are started at the same time.
Additionally, when pre-downloading is disabled, write the file to target directory directly.
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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By default we now save to the default downloads directory rather than tmp, so if the default directory is encrypted then this isn't a problem anymore.
We can't really do what this enhancement suggests by "disabling pre-downloading" - the bytes we're getting have to go somewhere. Re-executing the same request may have bad side effects and/or produce a different file, so we can't "keep the request on hold" indefinitely while waiting for the user to pick a location, and we don't generally/always know something is a download before we start the http request and start receiving the response. So if I could I'd mark this "can't fix", but given that doesn't exist I guess I'll go for "won't fix".
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