download retention
Why would you remove the browser.download.manager.retention from about:config?
This seems that it would be something easy to handle. Now everyone is forced to use an addon that may not work as needed. When all you want to do is keep the downloads list cleared, this seems to be the simplest way of handling things.
There have been several things that have been removed from FireFox but this one is by far, for me at least, is the most confusing......
All Replies (1)
That is because download items are history items in the current implementation that are marked specially in places.sqlite and no longer stored separately in downloads.sqlite. To remove them automatically would involve deleting history. Actually the Downloads folder in the Library is present since Firefox 8 (2011), so this is not a recent change.
Firefox manages downloads in the Downloads folder in the Library (History > Show All History)
- Downloads are treated as history items: clearing history removes included download items and vice versa.
- When downloads are in progress you see an animated download button on the Navigation Toolbar showing an estimate of the remaining time
- The Download button gets a blue highlight once all download are finished to make you aware that new downloads are available.
- Pause and Resume can be found in the right-click context menu of an item.
- You can open the about:downloads page in a tab or window for easy access to download items.