> Could you explain how this violates privacy issues? 

The privacy issue lies in two points.

a)  the question if I am master of my choices appropriately (I like to 
be that!) This is maybe a minor philosophical question, but I guess the 
mayority of users sees the point of download choice in clicking after 
the destination input. At that point Moz has already committed action in 
my place.

b)  related to a) we have to walk from the assumption that a user has a 
fixed IP address that might make him identifiable at a particular 
download site. Under this circumstance it is not tolerable that Moz 
causes action before the user is finally decided to commit. In some 
extreme cases (and further depending whether Moz supports automatic 
login  at such downloads) this action could result even in financial losses.

I admit this is a minor issue, but not totally irrelevant. After all, is 
this intricate function not in truth an issue of developers' pride? "See 
what we have accomplished!" Has ever any (non-developing) user asked for 
it? If you smartly keep the recent download directories in a choice 
field accross sessions, it will be only seconds lost in 99% of all 
download cases. As a straightforward user I would happily go without 
such a detail if I gained control over proper useage of my disk-drive 
spaces. A lost "half" download is certainly the most annyoing alternative!

> I doubt that people will appreciate Mozilla using all their available memory. 

But you think that people will appreciate being forced to use the TEMP 
drivespace, and in myriads of cases out there shake their heads as (as a 
consequence) they are not able to download at all?

- Wolf





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