Open Bug 1529453 Opened 6 years ago Updated 1 year ago

Temporary downloaded (Open file) files are not deleted on update and close

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect, P5)

65 Branch
defect

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People

(Reporter: 13hurdw, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0

Steps to reproduce:

FF version one behind (64.0.2)

  • downloaded file, selecting "Open file" instead of save
  • Restart to Update
  • Update installed (65.0.1), FF reopened
  • Closed updated FF

Actual results:

Downloaded file is still present in user %TEMP% even after restarting to update, and exiting updated FF.

Expected results:

File is deleted either on restart FF, or after exiting updated FF session.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0
20190211233335

Even without any update Firefox occasionally leaves downloaded files in my temp folder seemingly without reason. This won't be fixed if bug 1306336 is implemented.

Component: Untriaged → File Handling
See Also: → 1306336

want to take this bug to solve, can anyone help me with getting started?

:Paolo is this something worth doing considering bug 1306336 and if so, do you know who's available to mentor?

Flags: needinfo?(paolo.mozmail)

(In reply to Gingerbread Man from comment #3)

:Paolo is this something worth doing considering bug 1306336 and if so, do you know who's available to mentor?

Considering that most operating system would clean up the temporary folder periodically, I don't think we might want to spend time and effort on this bug, also because it may be more complicated to fix than it seems at first glance.

Regardless, for new contributors I would recommend starting with bugs marked as "[good first bug]" and possibly with a mentor already assigned, to get a sense of the process first.

Flags: needinfo?(paolo.mozmail)

This indeed doesn't seem high priority to fix, especially if we might already not delete the files in other cases (I imagine, for instance, that we don't/can't if the user still has the file open in a helper application when Firefox closes).

Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Priority: -- → P5
Severity: normal → S3
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