371608 - Firefox saves temporary files to desktop and doesn't delete them

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 302433

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

When opening any file, e.g. pdfs by clicking on a link to a pdf file, the file is saved on the desktop and never deleted again. Result: An extremely clogged Desktop with files not meant to be saved. Changing the folder for files to be saved in doesn't help either.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any pdf link
2. Open the file with firefox
3. Close firefox and the file.

Actual Results:  
=> File still on desktop.

Expected Results:  
=> File should be deleted after closing firefox or not saved on desktop at all!

Comment 1

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

This is fixed - there is a preference that you can set in about:config.

See the thread at http://kalsey.com/2006/02/temporary_files_in_firefox_on_osx/comments.html for some info on how to enable the pref.