360549 - "Clear private data" does not remember previous settings

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 302620

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[steffan nowwak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/125.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12
Build Identifier: all platform firefox releases <= 2.0 (current version as of writing)

when selecting "Clear private data", default options are selected each time (it does not offer to remember my individual previous choice, nor un/check-all buttons.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. select menu > tools > "Clear private data"
2. then you see the same options checked each time
Actual Results:  
you see the same options checked each time

Expected Results:  
* remember my individual choice from last time.
* even better and more flexible:
** offer a check-all and uncheck-all button
** and a togglebox for "remember last choice"

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

It will only remember it if you open the dialog box form Tools->Options->Privacy. If you open it from Tools, the changes are one-time only.

see bug 302620 and bug 301486

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 302620 ***

Comment 2

[steffan nowwak]

i totally agree with you. i can reproduce your instruction.
firefox's behaviour now satisfies me.

stefan nowak

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p.s.: one note for macintosh users:

way1: menu > tools > clear private data (choice can be altered on each call)
way2: menu > firefox > preferences > privacy > private data (here you set the default behaviour)

and for windows this is the correct terminology:

way1: menu > tools > clear private data (choice can be altered on each call)
way2: menu > tools > options > privacy > private data (here you set the default behaviour)