Comment 13 for bug 90378

I also find this change highly annoying. I guess I understand why people who are new to Linux would not understand that saving their important files in /tmp is bad. But to people who have used Linux for a long time and are accustom to the old functionality this is really intrusive. For myself I have lots of reports that are downloaded from the web or email. I open these reports in open office, change the sorting or formatting to take a look at the data, then close the file. I don't care about the changes that I have made, I just wanted to look at the data a different way for the moment. So it works out really well that these files are saved to /tmp and eventually automatically deleted. Since Openoffice does not allow you to change anything about a file when its read only, not even change the sort order, I have to open the file, save it (in /tmp), just to change the sort order. I am okay with the default functionality the way it is for the Linux newbies, but I need an option in both Firefox and Thunderbird that allows me to use the applications like I have for years.

Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Thanks

Eric