When the Clear Private Data feature was introduced, users could choose to either invoke it on-demand using Tools > Clear Private Data or have data automatically cleared when the browser exited. The two invocation methods share a single set of preferences, though. We should decouple the two commands from sharing a single set of preferences about what type of data is removed, as the requirements for on-demand private data removal are unlikely to be the same as those for on-exit remove. The former is used when a user wants fine-grained control over removing data, whereas the latter is used when a user wants certain data to always be removed. The on-demand function should show the dialog (see bug 453440 comment 12 for design) with a time-range for history, and: - the state of checkboxes & dropdowns should be persisted for the next time the on-demand function is invoked, - the default state of these checkboxes & drop downs should no longer be tied to the "Settings" dialog in the Privacy prefpane The automatic on-exit deletion of selected items should still be controlled by a preference in the Privacy prefpane, but the Settings dialog (sheet on OSX) should look like this: | When I quit %productName;, it should automatically | | clear all: | | | | History --------------------------------------------| | | | [x] Visited Pages [ ] Cookies | | [x] Download List [ ] Form & Search Entries | | [x] Web Cache | | | | Data -----------------------------------------------| | [ ] Saved Passwords [ ] Offline Website Data | | | | ( Cancel ) (( OK )) | '-----------------------------------------------------' - the persistence of these selections will not be tied to those of the Clear Private Data command

This is fixed by the current patch in bug 453440 as anticipated. I'll mark this fixed once that lands.

As mentioned above, this is now fixed

https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?id=7467 added to Litmus. I also disabled an older Litmus test case (5966) that described the previous functionality. verified fixed on the trunk using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090116 Minefield/3.2a1pre. verified fixed on the 1.9.1 branch using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090116 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre