Closed
Bug 469961
Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
"Clear my private data when I close Firefox" does not clear anything
Categories
(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)
Tracking
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VERIFIED
DUPLICATE
of bug 470348
People
(Reporter: matt13hallett, Unassigned)
Details
(Keywords: privacy)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2 I have "Clear my private data when I close Firefox" ticked. When I close Firefox, the window comes up and I clear my entire history. When I reload Firefox, my history is still there. If I manually clear my private data, my history is deleted as it should be. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Go to Tools > Options > Privacy and check the "Clear my private data when I close Firefox" option 2. Browse the web 3. Close Firefox, wait for popup, clear data 4. Reopen Firefox and check History dropdown. For me, its all still there Actual Results: When I reopened Firefox, my history was still there Expected Results: My history should not be there! Only a couple of extensions - FireFTP, DownloadHelper and Adblock Plus, and British English Dictionary. Default theme.
Comment 1•16 years ago
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and disabling those extensions (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode) does change anything?
Comment 2•16 years ago
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If you click on settings near "Clear my private data when I close Firefox" is Visited Pages enabled? Does change anything if you enable "Ask me before clearing private data"?
I have seen something odd handtyped url's are not cleared from location bar with auto Clear Private Data on exit but that Ctrl-Shift-Del does clear them. First noticed a week or 2 back but couldn't get anyone to confirm it. More here - not just me http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=985705&p=5253295#p5253295
Comment 5•16 years ago
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(In reply to comment #4) > I have seen something odd > > handtyped url's are not cleared from location bar with auto Clear Private Data > on exit but that Ctrl-Shift-Del does clear them. only handtyped? so is something cleared? And those appear in history sidebar as well, right?
Keywords: qawanted
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20081217 Minefield/3.2a1pre ID:20081217171419 I checked to make sure and I was wrong, not just handtyped, called up 2 from bookmarks http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=historyscreenshotbo1.png http://img394.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotclearrecenthihu1.png but entries still there after restart. Ctrl-Shift-Del got rid of them
Comment 7•16 years ago
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(In reply to comment #6) > called up 2 from bookmarks > http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=historyscreenshotbo1.png > http://img394.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotclearrecenthihu1.png what do you mean by "called up 2 from bookmarks", are those bookmarks?
Comment 9•16 years ago
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bookmarks and livemark children won't disappear from locationbar, that is expected, however what makes a bug is having any item in History Sidebar after clearing private data on shutdown (with a blank start page obviously). So do you see that?
Comment 11•16 years ago
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bug 470348 should be the solution
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Comment 12•16 years ago
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Since Ian hasn't commented back on this bug for 4 months now and the parent bug is in a verified FIXED state, I'm going to move this to verified and remove the qawanted keyword.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Keywords: qawanted
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