From: felix@crowfix.com
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT] Firefox qt download file names
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:30:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080124043043.GA5874@crowfix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wsq010h8.fsf@newsguy.com>
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:22:27PM -0600, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> writes:
>
> > You probably don't want to give away the site, but if you get stuck post
> > some of the source that you think might be relevant, and we can go from
> > there.
>
> No, but I thought it might be easier to get the file out of wherever
> firefox does this... is that not a good way to go at it?
I have often found such files in the cache. Something like
.mozilla/firefox/xxx/Cache. Use ls -lt|head, look for the big ones,
use file to see if they are the right types, there may be several, use
hardlinks or copy them ... don't know how well it works for streaming
media but it works pretty well for others.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-24 0:58 [gentoo-user] [way OT] Firefox qt download file names reader
2008-01-24 1:06 ` Iain Buchanan
2008-01-24 1:19 ` Brian Marshall
2008-01-24 1:22 ` [gentoo-user] " reader
2008-01-24 4:30 ` felix [this message]
2008-01-24 13:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Albert Hopkins
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