Closed Bug 522914 Opened 15 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Firefox should always prompt before cancelling downloads when exiting the private browsing mode

Categories

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 541739

People

(Reporter: ehsan.akhgari, Assigned: ehsan.akhgari)

References

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Details

(Keywords: dataloss)

A user posted a curious bug.  When we quit the private browsing mode, we don't warn about any active downloads if they are resumable.  We should indeed warn about this, because otherwise user's downloads might vanish without them understanding, and since we throw out all of the private browsing mode session, it might be difficult/impossible for the user to download the file once again.
If you let me add a comment, the same thing happens with the files you're downloading when entering private mode.. All downloads are cancelled without prompting.
You still can recover the link to those files, but it's very annoying.

A tight hug from Argentina, bro.

(In reply to comment #0)
> A user posted a curious bug.  When we quit the private browsing mode, we don't
> warn about any active downloads if they are resumable.  We should indeed warn
> about this, because otherwise user's downloads might vanish without them
> understanding, and since we throw out all of the private browsing mode session,
> it might be difficult/impossible for the user to download the file once again.
I managed to file a dupe of a bug which I had already filed!  Neat!
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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