MozillaFirebird and /tmp

revoohc · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Oct 2002 Posts: 128

This is very frustrating, I told MozillaFirebird to download the redhat 9 iso images to my /opt directory since that mount point has the pace to hold the ~1.5 gigs (iso's needed for work, don't sweat it

). Anyway, MozillaFirebird started to d/l'd them to /tmp which quickly filled up and caused several programs to have issues (including my vmware winxp system).

Does anyone know how to force MozillaFirebird to d/l directly to the specified safe directory?

Thanks,

Chris

lodger · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 53

Check your /etc/make.conf and look for
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=

Hope this helps.

FuzzeX · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 96

The download to temp directory has been around for a while (check out http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55690)

if you put about:config in your url bar and hit enter it will give you the list of configurable options. There is one called browser.download.dir you might try modifying that value.

The other option (which might be easier) is to use wget to download the file (wget [url]). Wget is nice since it's already installed (portage uses it to download).

Hope it helps.

Beekster · Apprentice Joined: 26 Nov 2002 Posts: 268 Location: Sydney

Yeah, that "feature" is quite annoying. The workaround that works for me is to right click the link to what you want to download, and choose "Save link target as...". This seems to download directly to the chosen location, bypassing the /tmp location.