1097619 - Downloads are removed from device when opting to clear 'downloads' on Quit

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Partha]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.111 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1) Download any one file via Firefox browser.
2) Once download completed click Quit button from Firefox browser.
3) Now verify downloaded file in download folder


Actual results:

Once I click Quit button it also deletes downloaded file from downloaded location.


Expected results:

It should not remove downloaded file. It should remove history only.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Thanks. I was able to reproduce. This is embarrassing.

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]: We should not delete downloaded files off a device when opting to clear the download list on quit

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Not so simple. We made a decision to remove the files and the history when clearing data.

Comment 4

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

I guess it's not very obvious that /mnt/sdcard/Download will be cleared

Comment 5

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

We changed the text in bug 971743. I didn't look as to why. It used to say "Downloaded files" and now it says "Downloads".

Comment 6

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

This is working the way we want it to. We could look at changing the text, but the behavior would remain the same.

Comment 7

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #1)
> Thanks. I was able to reproduce. This is embarrassing.

Apparently I forgot this was intentional. We discussed string changes in triage but decided not as it seems clear.

Comment 8

[Robert (rrayborn, he/him)]

I understand the decision, but this is an occasional source of quite negative feedback.  A large portion of these users don't seem to understand the behavior/cause, others didn't expect the behavior, some disagreed from a UX perspective.
https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/?q=download+%2B+delete+%2B+files&date_start=2015-02-11&product=Firefox%20for%20Android

One user even claims that files are deleted regardless of their pref, but I'm unable to reproduce: https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/dashboard/response/5302295

Comment 10

[[:Chris78]]

Imho there should be at least another confirmation dialog "This will delete all downloaded files from your device. Are you sure?"

Comment 15

[yxu]

I still find it difficult to understand the meaning of doing that. Because in the Desktop, whether it is in complete privacy browsing mode or set the browser to clear the download list when quit, will not affect the downloaded file. Compare with other mobile products or maintain the continuity of the desktop version of the operation, we should not do that.

Comment 16

[mrninko]

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?) from comment #6)
> This is working the way we want it to. We could look at changing the text,
> but the behavior would remain the same.

Do you plan to fix it? Today I delete by mistake 50+ files from work which I had to process. So I have to download them one by one again. So please... current state is counterproductive and you are only one browser which use it this way...