520282 - Preferences: Clear recent browser history has no confirmation dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 531825

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[nomegustan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2b1pre) Gecko/20091001 Fennec/1.0b4

Build Id:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2b1pre) Gecko/20091001 Fennec/1.0b4

In the preferences screen, when we select to "Clear recent browsing history", after hitting the "Clear" button, there is no dialog to confirm/deny the action

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the Preferences tab
2. Click the "Clear" button with Clear recent browsing history

Actual Results:  
Clear button is no longer selectable, and history is deleted

Expected Results:  
Clear button is no longer selectable, and history is deleted

aakashd asked me to file a bug to discuss whether or not to add a confirmation dialog verify if a user truly wishes to delete their recent history.   On Mozilla for instance it prompts a dialog asking how far back in the history the user wishes to delete.

Comment 1

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

This is confirmed, now its a case of whether its something that will be fixed

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

We had a previous bug that overlaps a little: bug 491885

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Also, it's kind of the Fennec way to _not_ use modal prompts to confirm things. Instead we favor allowing the user to "undo". There is a general effort underway to look at "undoable" actions.

Comment 4

[nomegustan]

I can understand the trend towards "less" of multiple menus/UIs, also the undo action.  However I noticed that once you hit the "Clear" button, it "resets" after about 5 seconds, where you can Clear the browsing history presumably again.  Can we at least keep the Clear button non-selectable to indicate that the Clear action has completed and not-selectable until more entries are added to the browsing history?

Comment 5

[[:Aleksej]]

Confirmed in the Linux desktop builds.

Comment 6

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Moving ahead with a new UI in bug 531825