1312036 - Download Panel removes all the download entries of the same file at the same time

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect)

Description

[Iulia Cristescu, QA [:JuliaC] (away, please needinfo? [e-mail])]

[Affected versions]:
- Latest Nightly 52.0a1 (2016-10-20)
- Latest Aurora 51.0a2 (2016-10-21)
- 50.0b9 build1 (20161020152750)
- 49.0.1 (20160922113459)

[Affected platforms]:
- Windows 10 x64/ x86
- Mac OS X 10.10.5 
- Ubuntu 14.04 x86

[Steps to reproduce]:
1. Launch Firefox
2. Perform a random download multiple times (e.g. go to http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html and download one file multiple times)
4. Wait for the files to be downloaded
5. Open the Downloads Panel
6. Right click on one of the downloads
7. Select "Remove from history"

[Expected result]:
- The selected item is properly removed from the download history

[Actual result]:
- All the download entries of the same file are removed at the same time

[Regression range]:
- This is also reproducible on 49.0.1 (20160922113459)
- I will continue investigating this as soon as possible

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I think this is by design, Remove from History is considered a privacy tool, and as any other history view, it removes any entry from history.
I'll let paolo evaluate this, but afair this may be invalid.

Comment 2

[Bogdan Maris, Desktop Test Engineering]

I was able to reproduce this on old builds as well, going back to 30.0 RC so I think it's safe to say this is NOT a recent regression.

Comment 3

[:Paolo Amadini]

Yes, it's by design, and the label is also correct in that "Remove from History" removes all traces of the download source, even if you downloaded from the same source multiple times.

Comment 4

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

(In reply to :Paolo Amadini from comment #3)
> Yes, it's by design, and the label is also correct in that "Remove from
> History" removes all traces of the download source, even if you downloaded
> from the same source multiple times.
http://testsafebrowsing.appspot.com/
A different behavior is seen for the 1st file of the 'Desktop Download Warnings' section - if downloaded twice, only 1 file is removed. Thoughts?
Files 2-7 reproduce the behavior described in comment 3.

Comment 5

[:Paolo Amadini]

(In reply to Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly] from comment #4)
> A different behavior is seen for the 1st file of the 'Desktop Download
> Warnings' section - if downloaded twice, only 1 file is removed. Thoughts?

That's because the first link generates a different download URL for each click.