Comment 11 for bug 1796661

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In , Dteller-v (dteller-v) wrote :

(In reply to Troels Liebe Bentsen from comment #4)

> There is also a bit of discussion on changing the behaviour of fscrypt to use EXDEV instead:
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> https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/124
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> But why is Firefox using the /tmp folder in the first place, would it not be better to do a tmp file in the same folder to start with and then maybe fall back to /tmp if that fails?

This would probably be better, yes. Both for privacy (if you're downloading to an encrypted folder, there is probably a good reason) and for performance (renaming across file systems is slow).