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When you open a file from Firefox instead of saving it, the file is downloaded to the /tmp file and opened read-only. This is a problem when opening spreadsheets from web pages, as OpenOffice.org doesn’t allow manipulation of files opened as read-only. In this article, I show you how to strip read-only privileges from spreadsheets opened from Firefox so that you can manipulate these files without having to manually save them elsewhere.