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@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@localhost firefox]$ firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 24.5.0 [hennebry@localhost firefox]$
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/926609
This 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.
On 6/23/2014 10:45 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
First is downloads.sqlite, then try changing setting what is shown as Startup (anything but "show from last time").
or just go into the downloads list in firefox, and delete whatever is in there.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Michael Hennebry < hennebry@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@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@localhost firefox]$ firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 24.5.0 [hennebry@localhost firefox]$
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, SilverTip257 wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Michael Hennebry < hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
Whenever I start firfox, it tries to download two .iso files into Desktop.
I generally set Firefox to ask me where I want to download a file to (but have it default to ~/Downloads/).
Me, too. Sometimes it doesn't. It did this time and I'd thought I was done with those downloads until firefox kept filling the partition.
Firefox 24.6.0 is in the repo for CentOS6. You're running 24.5.0 ... update and see if it fixes?
I'll try it.
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, SilverTip257 wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Michael Hennebry < hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
Whenever I start firfox, it tries to download two .iso files into Desktop.
Firefox 24.6.0 is in the repo for CentOS6. You're running 24.5.0 ... update and see if it fixes?
That seems to have done the trick. Thanks.
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, John R Pierce wrote:
On 6/23/2014 10:45 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
First is downloads.sqlite, then try changing setting what is shown as
downloads.sqlite is a binary file that I have no idea what to do with.
Startup (anything but "show from last time").
or just go into the downloads list in firefox, and delete whatever is in there.
If you mean ~/Downloads , they were never there.
On 6/23/2014 11:22 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
or just go into the downloads list in firefox, and delete whatever is in there.
If you mean ~/Downloads , they were never there.
no, the downloads down-pointing arrow on the new toolbar, or type about:downloads into the url bar, then clear (right click, remove from history...) those pending iso's.
that .sql file is a sqlite database. you can open it with the sqlite3 command tool, and examine the tables and stuff inside with SQL commands, but that's far beyond the scope of this email. http://www.sqlite.org/cli.html
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, SilverTip257 wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Michael Hennebry < hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
Whenever I start firfox, it tries to download two .iso files into Desktop.
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, John R Pierce wrote:
or just go into the downloads list in firefox, and delete whatever is in there.
If you mean ~/Downloads , they were never there.
Just found about:downloads .
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