On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:04:58 +0000, Dr Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Someone in another group had a web-page in a Usenet newsgroup article > which I clicked on. KDE loaded firefox (which is my default browser), > but instead of giving me the web page, it copied the web-page of the > link into > /var/tmp/kdecache-sian/krun/13950.0.iu.html Unfortunately, most of the > links in the page are reference a file in /var/tmp/kdecache-sian/krun/ > which I do not have. > > How can I prevent Firefox copying the web-page? And why does it do it?
That's a weird place for Firefox to save temporary files :-? >From what kind of client (newsreader) did you load the URL? Maybe you have to instruct your reader how to handle "http://"; protocol and links inside it or maybe is just the URI source (.html) was embedded in the message and thus the newsreader thought it was a file to be save somewhere... > I might note that the newsgroup is soc.culture.esperanto and the web > page is in Esperanto using UTF-8. Try to load the newsgroup messages with another nntp client to see if you can mimic the same behaviour. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.12.13.17.53...@gmail.com
