Stan Goodman wrote: > > Of course. TCP/IP installation put a line in CONFIG.SYS pointing to a > place where its temporary files should be placed; evidently, since you > looked there, you have such a line too. To the best of my knowledge, > Mozilla does not have a place to specify such a pointer -- I have > searched. perhaps not thoroughly enough, without finding one. > Evidently, by default Mozilla uses the TCP/IP pointer, but at least at > the time I examind the directory, no other program was using the > stash. Why my Mozilla has been putting files there and yours hasn't is > something I am not able to answer.
Mozilla uses either the TEMP or TMP (forget which) environment variable to determine the location. > I do not think it is terrible to put files there, since that is why > the pointer and the directory exist. But, having used the directory > for its appointed purpose, Mozilla (even as a Beta) ought to be > sufficiently well behaved to clean up its mess when it is done. Or the > developers, being non-Beta humans, ought to have had the grace to note > in a readme file that users should check the directory from time to > time, lest they run out of disk space; or that they empty the > directory at boot time, since anything there that has survived a > shutdown and boot has outlived its usefulness; or that the TMP > directory should be placed on a virtual drive, so that it is moved > into Limbo at shutdown, for the same reason. Such a warning would not > have required a great deal of programming acumen. A search of Bugzilla for "temp files" turns up 17 bugs, most of which seem related to various forms of litter. I'm sure they'll be addressed when they reach the top of their owners' priority lists, or someone assumes responsibility for them if they have no owner, or someone contributes a patch. In the meantime you might consider writing and submitting a paragraph for the release notes along the lines you suggest. h~
