• Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    My use case is this: opening invoices from the ERM. The web app sends it as a download. I open one every 2 minutes. On edge I have an “open” button that does what it says. On chrome/Firefox/opera/Vivaldi it just downloads and at the end of the month I have the download folder littered with thousands of useless files. Or I need to set it for opening to a dialog for a path that might be preset to a temporary directory (that on windows still must be manually cleaned). The time saving in my use case is a lot and this setting is synced to all my machines, where the temp directory workaround is not and I have to set to each single machine

    • no surprises@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      You’re on Linux, create a simple bash script that would execute cd ~/Downloads && rm *.pdf and schedule it with cron. You spent more time writing these comments about the problem than solving it. I mean, of course, it’s up to you: you can talk about issues that you’re facing and use Edge if it satisfies you. I just find it a bit unusual, given that people often move to Linux because they don’t want to use Microsoft products.

      Edit: lemmy can’t deal with ampersands in the inline code block and I can’t deal with lemmy :D

      • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yes but it’s an hassle that can be avoided. The reason I stopped using chrome in 2008 was exactly this style of download. If Firefox has the same behavior of Chrome, then I don’t like it anymore

      • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I have ten devices, I need to set this workaround on each of them. On edge the clearly labeled setting is automatically synced everywhere