Firefox issue
I"ve been using firefox for a while now as my default browser and have been quite pleased but have one question. Each time I open an attachment (for example some type of pdf file) a copy of the file remains on my desktop- so I often have many, many files cluttering up my desktop. I don't recall this happening on safari. Could someone please tell me how to avoid this problem. Usually I just want to read these files and don't want to keep copies of them.
Thanks
Powerbook G4 Titatnium Mac OS X (10.4)
You're welcome.
Same thing applies.
If there is a PDF file or a file in Word format selected at a website, it must be downloaded to your hard drive in order to be viewed by the chosen application installed on your hard drive to open said file. This is why these files are on your Desktop which is the default location for saving downloaded files with Firefox.
Since these are downloaded files, you must delete the files from the Desktop that you don't want or need to save.
There is no other way to view downloaded files and there is not a setting to automatically delete downloaded files after being opened.
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== Description
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see
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