On 2016-11-07 18:11, Linda Walsh wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
Because that's the way you want it? If displayed internally (as here in 45.4ESR and 49.0.2), you could save to a place of your choice.
Doesn't matter. It still has to download the file to "somewhere" so it can be displayed. It doesn't try to use a web-based file as backing store for local display. Even html pages are downloaded, *somewhere*, locally (thus the idea of it being "cached"). That said, I believe acrobat can display some PDF's directly from the net while they are still downloading. But I don't think FF's internal reader does that as it's an "included" extension that just displays files (AFAIK, may have changed).
The content of web pages is stored into ".mozilla/firefox/RANDOM.default/Cache/". PDF pages can be displayed by firefox own code, by plugins inside the window, or by applications outside of the window. The last case is my case, and firefox is using "/tmp/mozilla_NAME0". -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)