1911469 - "Delete" option on HTML file in about:downloads doesn't delete sidecar directory from "Save Page As".

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, enhancement)

Description

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0

Steps to reproduce:

Acquisition

1. I visited a URI (https://example.com./#, as an example).
2. I secondary-clicked to invoke the context menu.
3. I selected "Save Page As...".
4. I saved the page.

Deletion

1. I visited about:downloads:

   firefox 'about:downloads' 
   

2. Secondary-clicked to invoke the context menu.

3. Selected "Delete".

Actual results:

Solely the HTML file was deleted, without a prompt to delete the sidecar directory, despite it being useless without its corresponding HTML file.

Expected results:

"Delete" should have prompted to delete the sidecar directory too.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Downloads Panel' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1911469#c1

[e-mail], that's correct.

Comment 3

[Negritas Sergiu, Desktop QA]

Hello! Thank you for submitting this issue I have tried to reproduce the issue on my end but unfortunately I wasn't able to with firefox 131.0a1(2024-08-09) on Ubuntu 22.04 .
Could you please answer the following questions in order to further investigate this issue?

1. Does this issue happen with a new profile? Here is a link on how to create one: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles
2. Does this issue happen in the latest nightly? Here is a link from where you can download it: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/
3. Do you have any addons installed? If yes could you please list them?
4. Could you please send a screen recording with the issue?

Comment 4

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)]

Attachment: Reproduction screencast.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1911469#c3

I've attached a video file. This occurs on a new profile. Note that this is an FR, rather than a BR.

Comment 5

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1911469#c4

Apologies about the rather sudden stop at the end of the video file. It's due to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491496#c0, but the video still depicts all that it needs to.