526119 - should not delete temporary files on exit

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 191239

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[brice rebsamen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091028 Iceweasel/3.5.4 (Debian-3.5.4-1) (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091028 Iceweasel/3.5.4 (Debian-3.5.4-1) (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When opening a PDF from a web site in an external viewer, it is downloaded as a temporary file in /tmp/. When firefox is closed, it deletes the temporary files. If the viewer does not work on its own copy, the PDF is not viewable anymore.
I think tmp files should be managed by the OS, at least under Linux. If I'm not wrong, linux will handle them...
Haven't tested with other types of files or other viewers, nor under other environments. But I suspect same result occurs. If I remember correctly, This was not the case with previous version of firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
- open a pdf in firefox (e.g. http://prism.cs.umd.edu/papers/Min06:annals-center/Min06:annals-center.pdf)
- when the dialog pops up asking what to do with it, choose open with YOUR_PDF_VIEWER (Okular in my case)
- close firefox
Actual Results:  
The PDF is not viewable any more in okular.

Expected Results:  
The PDF remains in okular.

Comment 1

[Peter Lewis]

Yes, I agree - this bug is rather annoying. Especially since I often forget where I got the PDF from. In fact, I could have closed the tab with the page which linked to it hours ago!

Presumably this affects files other than PDFs too.

Comment 2

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

This is a dup of 191239?