Open Bug 691160 Opened 13 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Clear recent history will clear back/forward history regardless of time range chosen

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
enhancement

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(Reporter: frommozilla.comhash69, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Build ID: 20110928134238

Steps to reproduce:

Open a webpage, click some links. Make sure back/forward buttons are not empty.
Then set system time for 2 hours back (or wait 2 hours).
Click some more links.
Press CTRL+SHIFT+DELETE to open "Clear Recent History" window
Select "Last hour" and  "Browsing and download history"
Press clear button


Actual results:

Back/Forward buttons are disabled (empty), even though they contained history from 2 hours back.


Expected results:

Session history should not be all wiped out it should obey the clearing rule selected by user.
Confirmed on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20111002 Firefox/10.0a1 ID:20111002030844
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: Clear history will clear session regardless what time range was selected → Clear recent history will clear back/forward history regardless of time range chosen
Version: 10 Branch → Trunk
Severity: normal → enhancement
session history just clears everything since it doesn't support clearing by a timeframe.
see http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/base/content/sanitize.js#239
this is not related to bookmarks & history though, moving to general (maybe preferences?).
Component: Bookmarks & History → General
QA Contact: bookmarks → general
Severity: normal → S3
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