Closed Bug 270636 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Automatically clean up completed downloads

Categories

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Downloads API
Version:
1.7 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: gideon, Assigned: bugs)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Add an option to automatically clean up downloads when they complete.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download 35 files.
2. Wait for them to finish
3. Start another download.

Actual Results:  
The download manager shows 35 completed downloads, plus the new one in progress.
Clicking "Clean Up" will clean up the mess.

Expected Results:  
Only the download-in-progress appears.
Version: unspecified → 1.0 Branch
Tools - Options - Privacy - Download Manager History - click the "+".
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
(In reply to comment #1)
> Tools - Options - Privacy - Download Manager History - click the "+".

Thanks. Perhaps a note/shortcut in the Downloads tab, seeing as the Privacy tab
is hardly the most obvious place to look for such a feature (unless you happen
to think "Hey, this has privacy implications!")?
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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