It was the same with Netscape 4.61 too.
I also discovered this "feature" when downloading a big ISO image. All
of a sudden, it had no room to write to OS2.INI....I thought I had a
memory leak or something until I figured out what was going on...
Well, Netscape isn't the only one. I believe IE does this too.
Isaac
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:53:23, Britt Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Right on Duane...
>
> this has to be one of the most assinine ways for a program to behave...
> ask the user where he wants something, ignore the user and go put
> it somewhere totally different.. what a kludge... and caused me no end
> of grief....until I figured out what it was doing...
>
> Duane Chamblee wrote:
> >
> > I don't know why/who decided that downloaded files are put in %TEMP%
> > first then moved, but this is an extremely bad idea.
> >
> > For instance download a mostly full CD .ISO image and see what I mean.
> >
> > 1) the Temp has to have at least the freespace of the download
> > 2) the "move" from temp to target takes a VERY long time for large files.
> > 3) I think it was said that the download starts while Moz is asking for
> > the location... although that's cute, it doesn't really help.
> >
> > can't this be switched off?
>
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