Am 12.04.2013 19:03, schrieb Timothy Murphy:
Reindl Harald wrote:
>> I've recently downloaded two files from different sites,
>> using Firefox under Fedora-18/KDE .
>> (One was a Ubuntu tutorial from Lockergnome.)
>> In each case the file is immediately opened in acroread
>> (ie I don't start acroread).
>> In one case the name given in acroread was 13656_0_ .
>> I found this file is in /var/tmp/kdecache-tim/krun ,
>> though it is not shown by locate even after updatedb ,
>> and copied it to a more permanent position.
>>
>> But what puzzles me is: is this a deliberate feature
>> to semi-hide files for some reason?
>> Or has there been a recent change in Firefox or Acroread?
>> Or have I misunderstood in some way?
> it is up to you to configure how each mimetype is
> handeled in Firefox and if it is set to "open with
> application XYZ" it is intentional to only have a
> temporary file because you did not request a download
>
> that updatedb does not find files in /var/tmp and /tmp
> is also intentional and controlled by /etc/updatedb.conf
Thanks for the two bits of info.
I should have said that I have no problem opening a PDF file
http://*.pdf in Firefox, which starts up acroread,
so I guess my Firefox settings are fine.
The files that have puzzled me have all come
after clicking on "Download" in a web-site.
On downloading the file acroread starts up,
and reads the file without problem.
The filename never has the .pdf extension -
it always has a name like 13656_0_
because you said to your browser it should load PDF files in acrobat
the website usually points to the pdf-file with a link
what your browser does with this information is out of control of the website