856976 - Download Panel isn't obeying browser.download.manager.retention Pref

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect)

Description

[marvinhk]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20130325214615

Steps to reproduce:

firefox preference:
browser.download.manager.retention = 0; <modified>
privacy.clearOnShutdown.downloads = true; <default>

action:
1. download an image or a file from the internet
2. restart firefox (with session restore)


Actual results:

1. after the download is finished, the item is not removed from the download panel

2. after restart the firefox, the item can be shown in the download panel with "show all downloads"


Expected results:

1. download panel should work according to "browser.download.manager.retention", otherwise a corresponding pref should be added to achieve the same

2. download panel should remove any download history according to the privacy policy "privacy.clearOnShutdown.downloads"

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Confirmed 1)
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Download_Manager_preferences for the Pref's Intention.

Regarding 2): that Link opens the Download Manager UI within the Library and AFIK it's intended that those Entries do not get deleted.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

this is by design, that preference wouldn't work properly with the panel design.
Rather, look at bug 838681