i don't use mozilla but do use the new mozilla firebird and it
does save where i tell it to, in addition to being smaller and
seemingly faster on page generations. you might try that instead.
--- Original Message ---
From: Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...
>Gotta vent...
>
><SIGH>
>
>WHY do browser writers insist they know more about the operating
>environment than the user...?
>
>Used Mozilla to download 9.2beta1 to *MY* choice of target disk
(yup, I
>finally have partitions available to test...); yet after over
300MB EACH
>downloaded, cd1 bombed out for lack of disk space... wasted 330M of
>bandwidth... :^PPPPPPPP
>
>I KNOW WHERE there is enough disk space to d/l the 3 images, so
I tell
>Mozilla to d/l them there, yet the dumb fsck insists on d/l'ing
to /tmp...
>
>Lesseee..... Moz logic:
>cd1 at 665M < available /tmp at 985M => fits!
>cd2 at 664M < available /tmp at 985M => fits!
>cd3 at 666M < available /tmp at 985M => fits!
>so cd{1,2,3} *must* fit on /tmp...
>
>Yeah, Right...! YUCH!!!!!
>
>Since Moz is too dumb to realize that it should look at the SUM
of the
>downloads, I've also had to abort the cd3 d/l, hoping I can
resume it via
>ftp reget; otherwise, another 330M wasted bandwidth...
>
>Better, if browsers would just *accept* the user's choice of d/l
location,
>we'd surely be happier... What's the point of d/l'ing to /tmp,
only to
>copy it to the final destination, when d/l'ing to the final
location with
>just a rename would suffice -- and avoid stupid design flaws like
>forgetting to use the SUM of downloads... not to mention
needing TWICE
>the amount of disk space for ANY download!
>
></SIGH>
>
>If there's a way to override this behaviour, it's not obvious
and/or I'm
>too pissed to find it...
>
>Then, there were the failed downloads overnight... appears that
>ibiblio.unc.edu removed the images during those downloads; yet, Moz
>claimed "Finished" after ~20M each...
>
>
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