1398303 - Local Storage not cleared by Clear Recent History

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 1047098

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[m517012]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0
Build ID: 20170824123605

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to weather.com
2. Add some random location through their add locations feature.
3. Close tab with weather.com
4. Use the clear recent history feature to clear time range of everything and all items.
5. Go to weather.com again and wait a little bit.


Actual results:

The location you added appears.
Open Developer Tools, Storage and look under Local Storage for weather.com, which will have jStorage key with your saved location.


Expected results:

Local Storage should have been cleared

Comment 1

[m517012]

Forgot to mention this is with a new profile.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Appears to be a duplicate of bug 527667

Comment 3

[Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.)]

Reopening per bug #527667 comment 43

Comment 4

[Simon Mainey]

(In reply to m517012 from comment #0)
> 1. Go to weather.com
> 2. Add some random location through their add locations feature.
> 3. Close tab with weather.com
> 4. Use the clear recent history feature to clear time range of everything
> and all items.

Now look at webappsstore.sqlite and it should be empty

> 5. Go to weather.com again and wait a little bit.

Data is being respawned (from indexedDB i think)

Comment 5

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

Mark, same question as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1400582#c4

Comment 6

[Valentina Claudia Ona]

I did a regression range and here are the results: 
Last good revision: 50a06f21ea6c08bd137fcff0eabda9527d4b3b38
First bad revision: 6256be938d185fca64a28f3f4ce4ffcfb2ee1f6d
Pushlog:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=50a06f21ea6c08bd137fcff0eabda9527d4b3b38&tochange=6256be938d185fca64a28f3f4ce4ffcfb2ee1f6d

Comment 7

[Christiane Ruetten [INACTIVE]]

I performed various tests in Firefox 55.0.3 and I can confirm the following:

Using the "Clear Recent History" dialog with the "Offline Website Data" option successfully clears:

- Cookies
- Local Storage

It fails to clear:

- Indexed DB

Firefox 55 is clearly affected and this bug is not actually about Local Storage, but about Indexed DB.

Comment 8

[Christiane Ruetten [INACTIVE]]

Just verified that Firefox 57 is affected, too.

STR:
- Create fresh profile
- Go to http://cr.23bit.net/idb.html
- Acknowledge database update and reload a few times to accumulate visit timestamps
- Open Storage Inspector (Shift-F9)
- Select website under Cookies and click "+" (below "Debugger") to add a few random cookies
- Select website under Local Storage and click "+" to add some random data
- Select "History / Clear Recent History" from Menu (Ctrl-Shift-Del on Windows)
- Choose time range "Everything" and ensure that everything under "Details" is ticked, including "Offline Website Data"
- Re-open Storage Inspector to update its data

Expected result:
- Data under Cookies, Indexed DB and Local Storage is gone.
- Reloaded website forgets about previous visits.

Actual result:
- Visit data under Indexed DB persists
- Reloaded website remembers previous visits.

Comment 9

[Christiane Ruetten [INACTIVE]]

This is a duplicate of bug 1047098. Let's move discussion there.

Comment 10

[bintoro]

Does this mean bug 1047098 covers Local Storage as well? Perhaps its summary should be changed to accurately reflect what it's about. See also bug 1367607.

Comment 11

[Christiane Ruetten [INACTIVE]]

(In reply to bintoro from comment #10)
> Does this mean bug 1047098 covers Local Storage as well?

So far the testing revealed that Local Storage is cleared in both 55 and 57, so AFAICS there is no reproducible bug regarding Local Storage. The only odd behavior around Local Storage I can reproduce in 57 is that `Offline Website Data` requires to be combined with `Cookies` to actually wipe Local Storage. That bit is captured in bug 1047098.

Comment 12

[Valentina Claudia Ona]

I verified this issue using Firefox Beta 57.0b14 with Build ID 20171102100122 on Windows 10 x64, Windows 7 x32, Ubuntu 16.04.
I will mark this as verified fixed.