Comment 10 for bug 32839

Originally this bug report did not refer to the automatic opening of external content, it got hijacked. So it's not a duplicate of bug 33038.

When downloading files, firefox puts them to /tmp, instead of the Desktop. This happens for files where you choose "open" instead of "save as".

One more reason this should be changed: privacy - any user on the system can see what files any other user has downloaded. The content cannot be viewed but the filename can be viewed.

It should at least be possible to configure firefox to save the files somewhere else.

Perhaps the default could be changed to /tmp/{randomness}/filename and the /tmp/{randomness} directory could be made unreadable to others.