[4477] in Athena Software Suggestions
Re: lost file from tmp directory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Tue Aug 15 14:23:31 2006
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:15:55 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: Andrea Rivers <arivers@mit.edu>, suggest@mit.edu
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On Aug 14, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> Yes, getting Firefox to use /var/tmp is probably a good short-term
> adjustment.
I investigated further, and this change by itself would be of
limited help, since by default Firefox will delete these temp
files when it exits. Fortunately, setting the Boolean preference
"browser.helperApps.deleteTempFileOnExit" to false allows
us to override this behavior. We can make this setting the
default by setting the preference in our extension. (Users
can add or change the setting via the about:config interface).
Bob
