86242 - Temp files downloaded for helper apps never deleted

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 63105

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Phil Peterson]

Using 2001-06-15-04 commercial release build on WinNT

0. Clear out your temp directory, if it's cluttered
1. Go to http://www.amazon.com
2. Pick a CD and listen to a sample audio clip in Real Player
3. Close Real Player and close our application
4. Look in your temp directory

Expected: temp file deleted
Actual: temp files collect forever

FWIW, I believe the way this was done in 4.x is that we kept a list of temp
files in the Windows Registry which we deleted when quitting and launching (in
case of crash) the app. The point being that there wasn't a way to know when the
file was no longer needed -- maybe there is in the current code...

Comment 1

[Phil Peterson]

Not sure if this is really a plugins bug or a file download bug. cc'ing law.
nominating for mozilla0.9.2 -- this seems like a bad bug to me.

Comment 2

[av (gone)]

Not sure what category helper apps fall into. Reassigning to mscott

Comment 3

[Chris Hiner]

Dup of Bug 63105?

Comment 4

[Phil Peterson]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63105 ***

Comment 5

[shrirang khanzode]

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