Firefox also saves files in my download directory that I chose to open directly into a program.
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(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)
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(Reporter: marcus.typ.johansson, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0
Steps to reproduce:
Click any downloadable link and chose to open.
Actual results:
The file also saved as a copy to my download directory.
It started a few days ago, followed you instructions on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-firefox-behavior-when-open-file and removed the handlers.json file, but it did not fix the problem.
Expected results:
NOT also download the 3 gb file I choose to open, I want to open the 3gb file in my specified program, not add 6gb of data to my computer.
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Updated•4 years ago
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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I forgot to add how this screwed my computer over. Suddenly my c drive had 1mb of free space, opened up my download directory and realized about 1tb of files were just laying there for no reason, the exact same files I had opened in video editing programs and then edited and saved where I wanted them.
As stated, this just suddenly became a thing, it has NEVER done this before and seriously, it cant be meant to work like this and demand of me to remove all files I chose to open directly into a program.
This is seriously a dealbreaker for me if this is how its supposed to be, I will be forced to use another web browser. :-(
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Comment 2•4 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::File Handling' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 3•4 years ago
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(In reply to marcus.typ.johansson from comment #1)
This is seriously a dealbreaker for me if this is how its supposed to be, I will be forced to use another web browser. :-(
Chrome, Edge and Safari to my knowledge all do exactly the same thing. There is more context in bug 1738574
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Comment 4•4 years ago
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That is simply not true. I switched to edge (because that was what I already had on my computer) and the workflow is exactly as firefox was pre update, ie, none of my drives gets overfilled with duplicate files I directly open.
I'm suspecting chrome would work the same. I love firefox but it seems the devs are more interested in "dying on the hill" rather than accept that the "updates" they implemented is simply something that makes the browser LESS favorable (to quite a few users it seems after reading the bug reports) to other browsers when using the "open file" method.
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