1766115 - PDF in eternal viewer are not stored in a temporary directory

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1738574

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[thommmy]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0

Steps to reproduce:

Using Firefox 99.0 on Linux, Fedora release 34, x86_64

1.) Open the setting in Firefox
2.) Choose for PDF-Files an external viewer link Okular or XPDF
3.) Open/Download a PDF from a url.

Actual results:

The working part:

• The PDF is viewed in the chosen viewer.

The not correctly working part:

• The "temporary" PDF is stored in /home/$USER/
• Firefox doesn't remove the temporary file

Expected results:

The temporary file should be stored in a sub-directory of /tmp/ or /var/tmp/
Used to work in former FF versions.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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

Comment 2

[thommmy]

(In reply to Release mgmt bot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte] from comment #1)

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

It's not about the internal PDF viewer.

Comment 3

[:Gijs (away/busy until Mar 10)]

This is the PDF-specific part of bug 1738574. We are likely to reconsider that bug "soon", so please don't be discouraged by the fact that it is currently closed.