Now I get to see if I can disable this behavior and add it to the user.js that I copy into user's Firefox profile folders when setting up their systems. Storage Sense) and now Firefox is like "nah, we'll save all these files you open in the browser into a folder you probably chose not to clean out on a regular basis". It took forever to get regular temporary file management in a Windows OS (i.e. If people want to save a PDF they open in a browser, there's already a way to easily do that rather than assuming that they always want everything they open in the browser to be readily retrievable later outside of the browser. Mozilla seems to constantly be enabling by default any new feature they come up with but that people aren't largely going to want (sort of like how they defaulted usage reporting to be enabled). This feature certainly sounds fine in the abstract but, in practice, it's just going to be a file management nightmare for most people. This makes me glad I switched over to Waterfox years ago (and, later, the Classic version thereof so that I could keep using certain addons) because of Mozilla increasingly making short-sighted changes like this and completely disregarding the concerns of their user-base in the process.
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