1445585 - Opening new profile window forces downloads in current profile to stop

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect, P5)

Description

[Gorjan Jovanovski]

Attachment: Cancel Download Dialog

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Build ID: 20180313225158

Steps to reproduce:

I had a large file being downloaded in Firefox on the current profile. I went to about:profiles, and tried to launch a second profile with the button 'Launch profile in new browser'.


Actual results:

Firefox prompted me that my current download will be cancelled if I try to launch a new profile. Even if I agree and click 'Cancel Download', the download will actually continue, so this alert does nothing to stop the download.


Expected results:

The new profile browser should have opened without affecting or alerting about my current download since the current browser and window stay open even after launching a new profile in a new instance.

Comment 1

[Gorjan Jovanovski]

This page has large test download files, they can help easily recreate the problem, since a running download is needed: https://www.thinkbroadband.com/download

Comment 2

[Ciprian Muresan [:cmuresan], Formerly of Ecosystem QA - please needinfo @mcoman for things regarding the team]

User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Build ID 	20180318220108

I have managed to reproduce the issue on the latest Firefox Release (59.0.1) and Nightly (61.0a1) on Windows 10 x64, Windows 7 x64, Mac 10.13.3 and Arch Linux x64.