Save Opened files in Temporary Folder
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Addition to above:
Or, if displaying from memory is not possible, download it to browser cache as a normal web page. If I understood it correctly, the browser keeps the cache within reasonable limits by itself. -
@joum Of course, downloads have to be saved somewhere since they could be several Gigabytes.
Enable the PDF plugin in Settings, Webpages. Also, check what you have changed in Settings, Downloads.
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???? !! ????
The settings - I have been annoyed by this for months, checked that Internal viewer is selected. Today I tried if switching it off would change anything: no.Just now I switched it back on and NOW IT WORKS !
WHAT????
Anyway, someone is happier now.Filesize - yes, of course if they are that big it may change the situation, but what I usually find are maybe a 500K or something. Still, why not in the cache?
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OK, that was a hasty statement. Actually it works only on some cases. So switching the viewer off and back on didn't change much (if anything) after all.
On those cases that Vivaldi 5.6 forces saving, 5.1 just shows the pdf.The download settings (on both browsers):
Save to default without asking = off
Update default = on
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downloading documents to display as temporary, so they are automatically deleted is clearly too difficult a task for the vivaldi developers. They have had years to figure it out. It won't happen.
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I came to this forum specifically to find out if Open might not clutter the disk. I can see that probably won't happen...
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A new discovery. This happens also with Excel files (*.xlsx).
The dialog box open/save/save as/cancel opens, clicking open doesn't open the file but opens another dialog to save the file on disk. I know (or guess) Vivaldi can not open .xlsx itself but the system default for .xlsx can.
I have forgot to mention that I'm running Vivaldi on Linux, there may be differences on behaviour in this kind of function between Windows and Linux.It may be that Vivaldi can not "hand over" the file to be downloaded to the system default app.
Why this happens also with .pdf, which Vivaldi CAN open, is mystery.As I said earlier, this HAS worked before (e.g. Vivaldi 5.1)
I haven't found a way to tell Vivaldi what apps to use with "strange" file types in Vivaldi settings.
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@astro46
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@joum I believe that I had also pointed out that this inconvenient, waste of user time, behavior was not happening in previous versions. At the beginning of this thread, or in a different thread about same topic.
Vivaldi has a number of good ideas, poorly, and incompletely implemented: eg: mail, (I just got through dealing with the latest update screwing up the mail system, and how POP mail simply doesn't work), or session-save, or windows panel (can't default to view windows in new tab), or inability to empty cache when closing, etc
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@astro46 Reading earlier messages I see you did.
"They have had years to figure it out" gave me an impression that it has been "bugging" since the beginning of Vivaldi.
BTW, saving sessions works perfectly for me, and Window panel by default opens windows in new tab - mail or cache: no idea/haven't tried.
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@joum said in Save Opened files in Temporary Folder:
@astro46 Reading earlier messages I see you did.
"They have had years to figure it out" gave me an impression that it has been "bugging" since the beginning of Vivaldi.
BTW, saving sessions works perfectly for me, and Window panel by default opens windows in new tab - mail or cache: no idea/haven't tried.
(Vivaldi 5.7.2921.53 / Linux, so your version will be different)re: i tried using 'session save' but stopped because there was no way to update the session saved. iow: if I added a site to the session, or one of the web sites was now on a different page, there was no way to update. I had to save a new group to a different name, then go into saved sessions and delete the old. I got tired of this silly inconvenience. Saved sessions was no different than simply saving a group as a bookmark and opening them together.
I am using win10. when I open a window panel it opens to a thin window, maybe a 1/5 of screen. Opening as a new tab requires right click>open in> new tab. I haven't found a setting for defaulting to 'open in new tab'. it is possible to drag the right margin to open to about half the screen. I don't know why opening as 1/5 screen as default was thought to be desirable.
For me these are examples of good features that were not developed.
I have quit vivaldi sync after trying for the 5th time, since its inception, I find it can't show the other 2 computers on a 3rd. one computer will show 2 instances of one of the other two. Another will show 2 instances of one of the other two. And sync can't sync web panels.
but as a simple browser, vivaldi has worked great. faster than others. downloads well. (except for downloading pdf's we don't really want to "download" and keep) The blank window problem has been recent (there is another thread about this issue)
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Quick update - this request has been added to the pipeline, which means we would like to implement it at some point. Once we start working on it, its status will change to "In progress".
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Thank you!!!
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Thank you so much for adding it to the pipeline. It seems like a trivial issue, but having the Downloads folder full of useless files is the main reason I uninstalled Firefox after they forced to "always download".
Microsoft Edge does not have this problem in all the operating systems, if pressing "open" it will save the file in temp. Tested in Windows, Linux, MacOS.
So, my default browser on PC is Edge, while on Android it's still Vivaldi
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@Interiorce Amen to this.
I also stopped using FF for the same reason.
Personally I find this most annoying in calendar (.ics) files; when e.g. needing to add a TV-program to my calendar, there is absolutely no point storing the .ics to "Downlaods" or any place else.
In my case, I'm using Outlook. It just needs to open the calendar event and store it to calendar when saving the event in Outlook. In Vivaldi's folders there needs to be no sign of this .ics file ever even existing after this whatsoever. No there is a list of old .ics file in "Downlaods" weaiting me to delete them and which have absolutely no use.
BTW, where in the pipeline is this change? I did not find it? Or is already impelemented yet? I do not have the latest Vivaldi installed.
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@1mechanic The Pipeline tag just means that it is something they plan to do, but nobody is working on it yet. When/if someone starts work on it, the tab will change to In Progress.
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@1mechanic If you're asking about an ETA, there isn't one, not even for those issues that are in progress. It is the Vivaldi Team's policy not to publish any estimates of when a feature will be implemented, nor even when they will start work on it.
Since it could be years before we see this feature, look for workarounds or adapt your workflow to what is already possible.
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Well, space on you PC?
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It's great it was added to the pipeline. Looking forward to implementation.
If someone knows how to get the downloading to temporary folder using extensions/plugins/... before it's implemented in Vivaldi, I would be grateful