How to make Firefox to not use /tmp directory for saving *part files during downloads?
Firefox: 52.5.2 (64-bit) OS: 4.9.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.51-1 (2017-09-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux
/etc/fstab entry: tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=100M 0 0
Firefox saves *part files in /tmp directory no matter what settings of file destination are chosen. User might configure FF so it should ask where to save file or choose a specific directory but it doesn't matter to FF during saving of *part file. There are no entries in about:config related to /tmp directory.
FF wrongly assumes that *part files should be saved in /tmp directory. FF wrongly assumes that /tmp is the place with enough disk space so all downloads of files larger than /tmp fail.
How to change or prevent this behaviour?
Gekozen oplossing
Try to set the TMPDIR environment variable to a folder in your home directory.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPDIR
- https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-release/source/xpcom/io/SpecialSystemDirectory.cpp
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Gekozen oplossing
Try to set the TMPDIR environment variable to a folder in your home directory.
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Thank you for your answer. It was a pleasure to look at nicely coded FF :)
I did some more testing: with new user account a freshly started FF behaves correctly. So it must be somewhere in configuration of my account :(
Well, it also works in my account properly. Maybe reconfiguring and restarting FF helped.
Thank you for your help.