Closed Bug 503006 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Forget About This Site terminated Downloads in progress

Categories

(Toolkit :: Data Sanitization, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Data Sanitization
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: blessonrajan, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

While a download is in progress, Selecting "Forget About This Site" option on the download link terminates the download. A zero byte file is created in the download location with the same file name.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a file download
2. Choose Forget About This Site on the download link
Actual Results:  
Terminates the active download. A zero byte file is created in the download location with the same file name.

Expected Results:  
Active download should continue. Download history may be cleared.
Version: unspecified → 3.5 Branch
Component: Bookmarks & History → Private Browsing
QA Contact: bookmarks → private.browsing
Component: Private Browsing → Places
QA Contact: private.browsing → places
Component: Places → Private Browsing
QA Contact: places → private.browsing
This is by design.  If we let the download continue, then Firefox will keep remembering about the download site, and you will end up with the unexpected behavior of Firefox remembering something you have explicitly asked it not to.  -> INVALID.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Component: Private Browsing → Forget About Site
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Version: 3.5 Branch → Trunk
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