On 2016-11-07 12:07, listreader wrote:
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 05:18:21 -0500 Felix Miata <> wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2016-11-06 23:46 (UTC+0100):
Based on absence of reponses here, I'd say ask on moznet or in one of the Mozilla forums what to do to keep FF from saving anything outside your profile directory. That it does so I have to think is at least potentially a security bug.
I'm not sure that's the case (security bug). It's a proper use of tmp. It's supposed to be cleaned up when firefox closes, and that happens correctly on my machines. Files are deleted on firefox close, though the empty dir remains in tmp for next use. My firefox installs call atril (the mate version of evince) to open all pdfs and that's how it works here.
Carlos, are the tmp files still there after you close firefox? (or do you not ever close firefox...)
I never close it... as I hibernate the machine, this can mean weeks. Then one day I have to apply updates and reboot, so FF closes. Other times hibernate crashes. The older file in there is from July. Not earlier, which means to me there was a change in FF then. There was supposed to be a cronjob that deleted old /tmp files, but it was superseded with something from systemd that doesn't work right. Upstream says that /tmp should be a ramdisk, so apparently they do not care. Perhaps I should resurrect the old cron script. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)