296601 - Sanitize Firefox does not use options that user chose last time it was used

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Martijn (MozBrowser.nl)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050523 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050523 Firefox/1.0+

Each time Sanitize Firefox is used the same options are selected (instead of
being user-specific).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tools/Sanitize Firefox (Deer Park/whatever)
2. Browsing History, Saved Form Information, Download History and Cache are selected
3. Deselect Saved Form Information and Download History
4. Click Sanitize Now (the selected items will be removed)
4. use Tools/Sanitize Firefox again
Actual Results:  
The items that where deselected are now selected again (not very user friendly)

Expected Results:  
As a user I would expect that the items that were selected during the previous
session will be selected now. However, Firefox seems to do the same random
selection each time. That's no problem for demonstrating the feature, but I
guess it would be nice when Firefox 1.1 is released it will remember the user's
selection (as the X-extension does it, if I remember correctly).

Comment 1

[Andrew Gillespie]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-ZA; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050603 Firefox/1.0

To change your settings permanently go tools - options - privacy - sanitize
options. I tested it this way and it did remember the settings. IMHO this is
good enough although I suppose a "remember these settings" options under tools -
Sanitize Deer Park would be nice.

Comment 2

[Martijn (MozBrowser.nl)]

Andrew,

Thank you for these comments. I did not know that it was meant to work in that
way. I do not expect there will be a user who expects to find it there either,
so I hope setting these options will also be integrated in the dialog in the
Tools menu. Remembering the last used settings by default would be nice.

Otherwise the "Sanitize Settings"-window that one opens from the Options-dialog
has to indicate that what a user selects in there are the default values for the
Sanitize-dialog. Now both windows look very similar and a user would think that
both are the same and have the exact same function.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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