PDF files left by Firefox on Mac OS X Desktop
Posted on September 9th, 2007 in Apple
Or: How To Auto-Delete Temporary Files abandoned by Mozilla apps on your Mac OS X Desktop.
Firefox on Mac OS X does not clean up temporary files in the same way as the Windows version. When you right-click a PDF file and view it (instead of save) Firefox downloads it and then runs the browser helper application. Firefox has no way of knowing when you’ve finished with the file, so by design it does not delete it.
This can leave your desktop cluttered with PDF files and other assorted detritus of the web.
