Whenever I start firfox, it tries to download two .iso files into Desktop. Until recently, I wouldn't notice until it announced that it had run out of room. At that point I would click on the messages to make them go away. In the mean time, it had been chewing up bandwidth. One file, I had tried to download by mistake. Don't remmeber what I did with it on purpose. The other I downloaded into a partition with more room. I found this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/926609 I did not like the side-effects. For now, I've stopped the downloads by replacing the target files with empty unreadable files. Now I get an error message right away and it does not chew up my bandwidth. I'd lke a better solution. Any ideas? [hennebry at localhost firefox]$ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-431.17.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 7 23:32:49 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [hennebry at localhost firefox]$ firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 24.5.0 [hennebry at localhost firefox]$ -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods
On 06/23/2014 06:49 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:> Whenever I start firfox, it tries to > download two .iso files into Desktop. > Until recently, > I wouldn't notice until it announced that it had run out of room. > At that point I would click on the messages to make them go away. > In the mean time, it had been chewing up bandwidth. > > One file, I had tried to download by mistake. > Don't remmeber what I did with it on purpose. > The other I downloaded into a partition with more room. > > I found this: > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/926609This link tells you which files in Firefox profile to try deleting. First is downloads.sqlite, then try changing setting what is shown as Startup (anything but "show from last time"). If that does not help, try deleting those .js files from the link you gave. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Michael Hennebry < hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:> Whenever I start firfox, it tries to > download two .iso files into Desktop. > Until recently, > I wouldn't notice until it announced that it had run out of room. > At that point I would click on the messages to make them go away. > In the mean time, it had been chewing up bandwidth. > > One file, I had tried to download by mistake. > Don't remmeber what I did with it on purpose. > The other I downloaded into a partition with more room. > > I found this: > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/926609 > I did not like the side-effects. > For now, I've stopped the downloads by replacing > the target files with empty unreadable files. > Now I get an error message right away and it does not chew up my bandwidth. > I'd lke a better solution. > Any ideas? >I generally set Firefox to ask me where I want to download a file to (but have it default to ~/Downloads/). Firefox 24.6.0 is in the repo for CentOS6. You're running 24.5.0 ... update and see if it fixes?> > [hennebry at localhost firefox]$ uname -a > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-431.17.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 7 > 23:32:49 > UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > [hennebry at localhost firefox]$ firefox --version > Mozilla Firefox 24.5.0 > [hennebry at localhost firefox]$ > > -- > Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu > "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical > reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young > goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //