download manager should auto remove finished files after x days else the downloads.rdf grows unattended to incredible heights.

Confirmed. It's easy to get multi-megabyte downloads.rdf files in a few weeks of Mozilla use....

i think that "Edit > preferences > Navigator > History > Clear History" should remove the 'Download Manger' history as well, and to clean all finnished files. and also the X days in the "History" tab should set the time befor removing finished files.

this looks like a dupe of bug 132755

not exactly the same thing i think, while bug 132755 is about "keep downloads yes/no" im thinking about removing them after X days

IMHO this is a bug that should be fixed soon (severity normal or major), not just an enhancement. Having a downloads.rdf file of several megabytes slows mozilla down a lot. Whenever saving a page or image I've experienced a 2-3 seconds delay between selecting the "save to" location and actually performing the save action. (Within this time interval mozilla was causing 99% CPU load and the UI did not respond.) Eventually I noticed that my downloads.rdf has been grown to 3.5 MB. This behaviour could again make many users complain about mozilla being sooo slow... :-( (And bug 143949 is intensifying this problem)

I have to agree that is a major bug. Once the downloads.rdf file gets a little large, downloads in Mozilla are glacially slow to start, I've also "experienced a 2-3 seconds delay between selecting the "save to" location and actually performing the save action. (Within this time interval mozilla was causing 99% CPU load and the UI did not respond.)" After removing the downloads.rdf, downloads are once again lightning quick. Mozilla should either clean it up based on the history prefs (bug 136054), remove completed files (bug 132755), or have a separately configurable option for cleaning it up, similar to the existing history prefs.

*** Bug 146059 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

cross-bug note: bug 136054, bug 132755, and bug 141794 all specify different ways to expire entries from the download history. To avoid duplication of effort, work on any one bug should be coordinated (if not combined) with work on the others.

Since my bug was marked as a dupe, I'm putting part of my description here. My suggestion is to allow automatic purging by date, similar to browser history. Three basic choices in the pref panel would be: 1. Retain indefinitely until manually deleted. 2. Retain for a specified number of days. 3. Discard immediately. Optional 4. Retain until end of session. This should take care of this bug and bug 132755. I think a separate number of days setting from browser history would be better than making them the same as suggested in bug 136054. Also, I believe this should not be marked Enhancement. Left unattended the growth of the downloads.rdf file can cause problems, including slower download startups and disk space problems. I believe it is also a local privacy issue.

Since this bug is similar to bug 132755, where much discussion has taken place, here is my last post there. Sorry for the spam to people already on that bug's cc list. Pref suggestion: ( ) Keep completed downloads: ( ) Remove after [ ] days

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Michael, take a look at bug 132755, in many comments (15, 30, 31, 35...) is suggested a pref like/similar to the one you asked for...

well since bug 132755 description has been totally changed ... can aswell resolve this as a dupe now bug 132755 used to be a totally different idea, but now its all in one i guess *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132755 ***

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