1140938 - separate delete download history from delete downloaded files

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1097619

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Download Manager, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150305021524

Steps to reproduce:

Download a file. Quit Firefox with delete downloads checked in options.


Actual results:

Both the download history and the downloaded files are deleted.


Expected results:

Need a way to delete the download history and files separately like in desktop Firefox.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

We made a decision to remove the files and the history when clearing data.

Comment 2

[[:Chris78]]

Imho this was a bad decision then ;) I lost a lot of downloaded files yesterday.

As a user of "desktop firefox" you're used to clean up the download history from time to time without loosing all your downloaded files. So it's in fact a dangerous thing, I think.

So, I would want to vote for a separate "clear download history" menu entry and an additional option "clear download history on exit".

It's just a real bad experience if you loose data. So I think something should be done about it.