136054 - DL manager doesn't observe history expire pref

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 251337

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Without knowing that the download manager exists at all, I just found that it
stores the files I downloaded. And it does so bejond the time the normal browser
history stores the urls.

Browser history pref: expire after 9 days
Download manager shows files downloaded 2002-03-26
Today is 2002-04-07.

Not sure when they will eventually expire, if ever, but this is a privacy violation.

Comment 1

[Ian Pottinger]

cross-bug note:  bug 136054, bug 132755, and bug 141794 all specify different
ways to expire entries from the download history.  To avoid duplication of
effort, work on any one bug should be coordinated (if not combined) with work on
the others.

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

Move to toolkit download manager made this a dupe of bug 251337.