@Marc Deslauriers Thanks for that, I didn't think it was a direct threat, but was unhappy about the behaviour. which I still find rather strange.
I saw a potential for leaving a very obscured hidden file (files) on the system, which could form a helper basis for an exploit, even if is does not directly cross a security boundary. No direct evidence of an actual exploit, though (fingers crossed). At the moment, I reckon this has only happened consistently with Ryushare. Other downloads seem to work most of the time, though I still have the (slightly unconscious) impression that some other downloads initially get diverted to /tmp, but act correctly later on. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1097942 Title: download file does not honour preferences Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Just updated to "FF18.0 beta for mint" in KDE mint Maya 13 live dvd and it's a mess, basic stuff is stuffed. Similar to bug/892927, bug/1004037 I set edit preferences: no - Show the Downloads window when downloading no - close it when.. no - save files to [ ] - not set, left at default default value mint/Downloads yes - always ask attempted to download a file. No dialogue appeared to ask where to save it, I didn't check at that time what was happening, thought it had just failed. Some time later, a pop-up panel saying insufficient space to save file. There had been multiple attempts, all marked "failed" (though apparently successful) to download the file to root/tmp, , file-1, file-2 ... etc., which had filled up the allocation. So, the download not honouring the preferences set, sending to wrong folder, and marking as failed, retry, when finished. Is Firefox losing the will to live? yeesh. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1097942/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
