Open Bug 646975 Opened 14 years ago Updated 2 years ago

"Clear Recent History" always wipes cache completely, even if a certain time range was selected

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows 7
defect

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UNCONFIRMED

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(Reporter: sidrabbit, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 "Clear Recent History" always wipes cache completely, even if a certain time range was selected. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Ensure your cache is enabled and has some files more than an hour old. 2. Press Ctrl+Shift+Delete to open "Clear Recent History" dialog. 3. Change time range to "Last Hour", then open "Details" and check "Cache". 4. Click the "Clear Now" button. Actual Results: Cache is completely empty. Expected Results: Only items matching the time range should be deleted from cache.
Did you check the Age of the Entries by using about:cache?device=disk?
Version: unspecified → 4.0 Branch
(In reply to comment #1) > Did you check the Age of the Entries by using about:cache?device=disk? Yes, under "Last modified" column.
I can still reproduce this with the latest nightly. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110624 Firefox/7.0a1
Version: 4.0 Branch → Trunk
I can confirm seeing this on 16.0.2 release for Mac... Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
Any update on this? My Internet connection is very slow and expensive so I used large cache storage for better web surfing. Yesterday my friend used my laptop to check his mail. I cleared all the data during last hour and closed browser. After starting it again, I've noticed things loading much slower and from about:cache saw all disk caches are cleared out.. I'm sure it contained +100MB last week that I checked it to diagnose a web designing problem. And Today i reproduced same problem.. On Firefox 18, Gentoo linux build.
I can confirm that it still happens for me with Firefox 20.0 on Mac.
Severity: normal → S3
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