Comment 33 for bug 15179

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:15:50PM -0000, Sean Kennedy wrote:
> Yes, I think the general Downloads dir would get too crowded.
> What about a personal downloads directory (like was originally proposed),
> say ~/.webfiles or ~/.firefox/webfiles? Things downloaded to this directory
> should be saved read-only so the user will be prompted to save the file
> somewhere else if they edit it (from whatever program they use to edit it).
> It should be possible to have this directory automatically cleaned when the
> other personal data is cleaned, probably with a warning though, like when
> forgetting saved passwords (I think that is the one with the warning).
> There should be a way, for those who like the current behaviour, and know
> what they're doing, to change this directory back to /tmp.

Then why not just save as read-only and keep the downloads in tmp?

 - Alexander