Comment #7 on issue 9023 by [email protected]: Enable downloads to a  
temporary location (view vs. save)
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=9023

Darin, my understanding is that lots of programs use temporary directories,  
and that
the system will prompt users to clean those up if it runs out of space. I  
might be
mistaken though.

Otherwise, I think a simple algorithm like "delete if older than a week and  
not
currently open" would be fine. I'd prefer to not have to implement this  
though.

Dhhwai, we don't want the user to have to make a choice each time they  
download a
file. Right now, [download] is the default action. The point of this  
feature request
is to allow the user to [open] by default, and [download] by right-clicking  
and
choosing "Save as...".

We can't add an [open] context menu option in the default case, since we  
don't know a
link is a download until the user clicks on it. We could look at the file  
extension
as a heuristic for this, but it wouldn't work all the time.

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