Firefox 3.5.6

[gezza]

Hi All,
I have a P4 - 800 machine, 1.5Gb ram and on-board video.
Although Firefox is set to download data to the /home/user/Downloads folder it actually puts it in /tmp
The system has been rebooted many times to no avail.
Can anyone suggest a fix for this as I have lost a lot of info assuming it has gone where I told it to.
Also, I set Firefox to ask where to save to, it doesn't do it.
This machine picks up email, maintains a copy of the HEAnet  repository and runs Skype.
Since emails contain links to other sites data, this is where I keep general Downloads.
Your help will be much appreciated.
Gezza

[Rudge]

My experience with Firefox 3.5.6 has been - Click on EDIT, open Preferences, Click on the Main tab and check "Always ask me where to save files" for the download options and it does so faithfully.

Sorry if that is no help. 

[muungwana]

the problem could be due to a bad setting in firefox configuration folder or an extension interference. Close firefox, renamed .mozilla to something else and restart firefox and see if the problem is still there. All your settings and extensions will be gone but atleast you will know if the problem is not due to bad settings. Readding your extensions and custom settings shouldnt be too hard to do and you can always go back to your old setting folder if you want.

It is always better to create a backup folder of .mozilla when you have it setup the way you want to avoid resetting things when it get corrupted and you are forced to start with a new profile

the folder is a hidden folder and you will have to set your file manager to show hidden files before you can see it

ps:
firefox is not a kde4 application and i do not think your problem is caused by kde4 and this thread belongs to the software section