281199 - temporary file not removed when opened with "default application"

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Timo Lindfors]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

Clicking a link to a PDF and choosing "Open it with the default application
(/usr/bin/xpdf)" leaves the downloaded file in /tmp even after xpdf has exited.

This behavior probably happens with other file types too but it's most annoying
with PDFs.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open URL http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1300.PDF
2. Choose "Open it with the default application (/usr/bin/xpdf)"
3. Wait for xpdf to start and then close xpdf

Actual Results:  
The downloaded file is still in /tmp:

$ ls -l /tmp/EWD1200.PDF 
-rw-------    1 lindi    lindi      312282 Feb  5 18:57 /tmp/EWD1300.PDF

Expected Results:  
The downloaded file should have been removed when the "default application" exits.

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

does the file get removed when you quit mozilla?

Comment 2

[Timo Lindfors]

Aha, indeed, the file gets removed when I quit mozilla. However, thanks to the
great stability of mozilla I quit mozilla quite rarely :=) I usually have
mozilla running for months under a VNC session. If I open 10 PDFs every day (and
each is about 1M) my /tmp will be filled in a month or so. On the other hand I
realize that detecting when xpdf has exited might be tricky to achieve.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Not only that, but users expect the file to be there even after they quit xpdf,
until Mozilla quits...

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 306858 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***