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 //