1638584 - Different behavior when opening Show All Downloads in Standard Mode vs. Private Mode

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect, P3)

Description

[Eric Friesen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0

Steps to reproduce:

Opening the Download Manager in Standard Mode opens in a New Window.

Actual results:

The Download manager opens in a new window.

Expected results:

The Download Manager should open in a new tab according to preferences set (default).
Note that this only happens in normal browsing mode. When browsing in Private mode, opening the download manager seems to respect the setting for opening new links in a new tab.

To reproduce:
In normal mode, open the download manager, either by clicking on the download button in the menu and clicking on Download Manager or use the respective key-binding (usually CTRL+J), you will notice it will open in a new window.

To see the proper respect of the new tab setting, open a New Private Window and click on the download button and then Download Manager or the key-binding. You will notice it will open in a new tab.

Comment 1

[Alin Ilea, Desktop QA]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Hi,

I have managed to reproduce this issue on Release version 76.0.1, Beta 77.0b7 and latest Nightly 78.0a1 (2020-05-19) using Windows 10.

Further, I will move this over to a component so developers can take a look over it. If this is not the correct component please feel free to change it to an appropriate one.

Thanks for your report.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

This was done because the Library doesn't show private downloads (it's a separate window) so a PB window has to open a different view. And we don't open about:downloads in a normal window because the Library is (atm) a nicer UI.
Moving the Library in content could of course solve the trouble