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From: felix@×××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT] Firefox qt download file names
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:30:55
Message-Id: 20080124043043.GA5874@crowfix.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT] Firefox qt download file names by reader@newsguy.com
1 On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:22:27PM -0600, reader@×××××××.com wrote:
2 > Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> writes:
3 >
4 > > You probably don't want to give away the site, but if you get stuck post
5 > > some of the source that you think might be relevant, and we can go from
6 > > there.
7 >
8 > No, but I thought it might be easier to get the file out of wherever
9 > firefox does this... is that not a good way to go at it?
10
11 I have often found such files in the cache. Something like
12 .mozilla/firefox/xxx/Cache. Use ls -lt|head, look for the big ones,
13 use file to see if they are the right types, there may be several, use
14 hardlinks or copy them ... don't know how well it works for streaming
15 media but it works pretty well for others.
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