Closed Bug 1763199 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Firefox saves temporary PDF files (command: open PDF file in external PDF viewer) in download directory instead temporary directory

Categories

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Downloads Panel
Version:
Firefox 99
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1738574

People

(Reporter: matthias.wolff, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. click on a link to a PDF file
  2. select in the opening window: open with PDF XChange Viewer
  3. click ok

Actual results:

  1. PDF file opens in the PDF XChange Viewer
  2. After closing the viewer the PDF file remains in the download directory (since Version 98)

Expected results:

  1. OK
  2. The PDF file should not remain in the download directory (as in all versions until 97)

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Downloads Panel' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Downloads Panel
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE

As the initial bug is closed for additional comments because getting the download folder flooded with temp files is apparently considered "useful":

In "Settings / General / Files and Applications", activate "Save files to" and set it to your tmp folder. Than activate "Always ask you where to save files". While a bit counter intuitive, the provided folder is luckily being used despite it being deactivated when opening a file directly in an external application. At least until Mozilla decides to annoy people some more instead of actually making things more useful.

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