Certainly it /could/ skip this, but /tmp is where the download manager stores partially downloaded files. They are partially downloaded until the last byte is received. This is used during the download or in the result of a pause. I'm not sure fixing this is a good way to spend time.
Please refer to http://superuser.com/questions/33020/how-to-change-tmp- repertory-for-firefox-downloads 'According to the source code (xpcom/io/SpecialSystemDirectory.cpp: lines 419-433) you can set any of the environment variables TMPDIR, TMP, or TEMP to the path of the directory where you want your temporary files to be stored." -- if there isn't enough space in /tmp for a file, firefox cannot download the file to any location https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/329152 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
