User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3 Build Identifier: Firefox version: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008031317 Firefox/3.0b4 From bugs.launchpad.net: Alexander Sack: please file a bug for this upstream in bugzilla.mozilla.org against the browser::places component: -- Bug #209794 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/209794 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Navigate to a few websites 2. Tools -> Clear Private Data 3. Begin to type into the address bar the name of a site you visited before Actual Results: Your browsing habits are clearly visible in the dropdown from the address bar. Expected Results: The site is not recognized because private data was cleared.

are showed urls bookmarks? also after a clear private data bookmarks will still be showed in the location bar dropdown.

Can you tell us if Tools -> Options, "Privacy" section, "Settings" button in private data, the boxes are ticked for "Browsing History", "Download History", "Cache", and "Offline Website data"? If they are, and items still appear in the dropdown after you clear private data, does a yellow star appear in the items?

I haven't heard of such a bug yet - everybody always assumed that they were seeing their history in the dropdown list, but never realized that they were *bookmarks*. You can recognize them by the yellow star at the right. Immediately after a Clear Private Data, all entries should have that start, because all the history is cleared.

Bug is easily reproduced both under windows and Linux. Clear private date should behave just like that: a clean location bar. No bookmark, no historie, no reminders, just an empty location bar. Privacy means if you request a void you get a void. A semi erase is semi usefull i.e. obviously useless. (sorry one needs to be this loud to get a privacy issue across)

Clear Private Data should erase bookmarks ? Excuse me ? That would result in a few million bug reports. If you really want that amount of privacy, then you should nuke your entire profile after you've finished with surfing. You want an empty location bar without actually deleting the bookmarks ? Then this should also mean that bookmarks can't be used anymore in the awesome bar (before or after you've cleared it). See bug 463661.

I'd say we've got a little misunderstanding here. I don't think that jf.van.hemert@inter.nl.net (the comment #4) really wants to erase bookmarks. The problem is as follows: I can have a lot of 'weird' links within my bookmarks. With this 'new feature', when I start to write words into the address bar they could appear now unintentionally and THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. Where should I save those links then? I could be happy with some option like 'Search Bookmarks When Typing Into Address Bar'. I really HATE those 'new features' which come WITHOUT possibility to turn them off. Not to mention the default value 'On' when they're being introduced.

see bug 463661 and bug 460343

The bookmarks issue is a different story. After clicking Clear Private Data the history and the cache remain the same *regardless* of bookmarks (as of version 3.0.4). I would like to note that they do get cleared after repeating Clear Private Data several times.

in 3.1 you should be able to choice the location bar context between history, bookmarks, history & bookmarks

Hi, Do I understand the Comment #9 correctly? In 3.1 I'll be able to setup some options to choose from where the Address Bar is going to take data for showing them as hints while I'm entering part of URL into the Address Bar?

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h". In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows: Tools | Message Filters Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New" Conditions: Body contains places-to-b-and-h Change the action to "Delete Message". Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top. Click OK. Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter. Gerv