User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030425 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030425 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 Under Privacy, Cache will not empty by pressing 'Clear all' or 'Clear'. A workaround is to restart Firebird and cache can be emptied. This error occurs after using the browser for sometime. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click on Tools -> Options... 2. Select Privacy 3. 'Clear All' or click on 'Clear' for Cache Actual Results: Cache is not cleared. Expected Results: Cache should be cleared and the 'Cache' button shoud dimmed. The bug only happens after using the browser for sometime.

Wrong browser.

Was able to re-create the problem when I tried the mentioned steps after several hour of Firebird usage using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030427 Mozilla Firebird/0.6. But at least on my box Firebird cleared the cache and created a "cache.Trash" directory, but the [Clear]-Button in the Privacy Options kept enabled. After clicking several times on the [Clear]-Button Firebird finally crashed.

Did some further testing. On my box the [Clear]-Button stays only enabled, if I have an windows explorer accessing the cache folder of Firebird teh same time I try to clear the cache. In this case the cache folder gets deleted, but a new one called "Cache.Trash" gets created. This folder contains several subfolders named "Trash", "Trash-1", "trash-2" and so on corresponding to the number of clicks I made on the [Clear]button. If I then finally leave the Options-Dialog either by [Ok] or [Cancel] and try to continue with browsing Firebird crashed with an Access Violation in Phoenix.exe. Next I tried with Mozilla Browser and here the crash occurs also (see TalkBack ID TB19574935K) but I used a rather old building of Mozilla (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030312). In any case: the cache was deleted always! Only the [Clear] button kept enabled if the cache folder was accessed by windows explorer (and of curse later on Firebird/Mozilla Browser crashed). This happened also using a new profile for Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030427 Mozilla Firebird/0.6! => at least the problem for the crash seems not to be caused by Firebird-specific coding!

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030517 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030517 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 This bug occurs randomly, but several times a day without possybility to provocate it. Sometimes the cache is cleared, sometimes one item stays in the cache folder. Twice Firebird crashed triing to use the "clear all" button. The same occured with the 20030516 0.6 final buid.

*** Bug 206145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030521 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 Crash clearing the cache appeared again without to open the cache folder or anything other in the profile. The Cache trash folder apppeared with the several items in it, each for every click. Talkback worked. I never could provocate it with a Mozilla 1.4b release on the same WinXP. An enlarged session caching many files seems to provocate the crash. In 4 of three crashes the Sun Java JRE 1.4.1_02 had been loaded having visited a site with applets. I have manually installed the six plugin files.

Via mail from carbon: Hi Erik It did not crash the browser after clearing the cache. The problem is evident in the latest release of Firebird (v0.6). -- => reopening bug #206145 since the crash for Klaus re-appeared as of comment #6

I think too, crashes are a different bug. I found the problem to delete the cache in every build, it reappeared in 20030523. Being unable to cancel the cache, I openened the remaining files in the profiles cache directory and found the html-code of one site I opened (http://fileforum.betanews.com. So the cache is not deleted completely in any case. I dont know why even this site stay in the cache, its a site with complexe code and active X elements in it.

Can this still be replicated? On Firebird I can always clear cache and the button disables first time regardless of whether I'm in the Cache directory or not. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030712 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

I tried it with the latest 07-12 nighly. If the cache is cancelled after a large session, about 7 files stay in the cache. There are 3 folders in the profile called "cache", cache(2) and "cache trash". Opening some of the files in "cache" by notepad, the conten is the .html code of the last visited sites. So the cache is not clered totally. The problem occurs only in long sessions. I failed to provocate crashes, but thre was some instability (broken windows on the screen) opening files of the profile while firebird was opened. Yes, the bug is still there.

taking QA contact, sorry about the bugspam

I can confirm that this is still an issue (the Clear button staying enabled) in Firefox 0.8, Windows.

Bug still alive in FF 0.9.3

Bug came back in Linux FF 0.9.3 release with german language extension and in the latest trunk nghthly (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040902 Firefox/0.9.1+) since 0901. No crashes.

*** Bug 234834 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 246910 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 264614 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041018 Firefox/1.0 still happens duping the others against this one

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041023 Firefox/1.0 still present when clear cache wouldn't work I set: javascript.options.strict true and pressed clear cache again JSC message: Error: [Exception... "'Permission denied to get property UnnamedClass.wrappedJSObject' when calling method: [nsIStreamListener::onDataAvailable]" nsresult: "0x8057001e (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)" location: "<unknown>" data: no] I pressed a few times again, but the message didn't repeat :-( about:cache only shows a plain gray screen cache in profile is 50Mb and isn't cleared

dupe of bug 265028 ?

Yep, duping to 265028 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 265028 ***

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change