214738 - Mozilla caches saving file itself in addition to saving it in temporary directory

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 55307

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Alexander Rabtchevich]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030731
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030731

If I leftclick on the link in Mozilla and save the file on my HDD, Mozilla does
2 things: it both stores the file in its cash and uses system temporary
directory for the file storage at the same time. So this not only means double
job but 2 times consumption of disk space. This is especialy problematic for the
large files. Why do the browser try to cach the file it saves, not opens? After
all Mozilla deletes the file from it's cash immideately at download finishes.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to save big file from a link by leftclick of a mouse.
2. look at you temporary directory and Mozilla cache directory at download time.


Actual Results:  
The file is stored in 2 places.

Expected Results:  
1. Only one place must be used.
2. It must not be the temporary directory, but the directory the user asked to
save the link.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is already filed...

Comment 2

[Torben]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55307 ***