495868 - Clear private data does not fully clear browsing history

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 493151

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Matěj Cepl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090427 Fedora/3.5-0.20.beta4.fc11 Firefox/3.5b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090427 Fedora/3.5-0.20.beta4.fc11 Firefox/3.5b4

(originally filed as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502320)

Tools->Clear private data doesn't actually delete the browsing history
completely when the Browsing Data checkbox is ticked

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Clear private data
2.Restart firefox just in case it's needed to clear state
3.Click on location bar, and up pops a list of websites visited.
Actual Results:  
Browsing history not cleared

Expected Results:  
Browsing history cleared

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Does the list have a bunch of stars next to them? If so, this is not a bug, as those are bookmarks being displayed. You can choose what to display via the privacy preference pane in Tolls>Options

Comment 2

[Mark Clements]

Dupe of bug 496561.

Comment 4

[Mark Clements]

(In reply to comment #3)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 493151 ***

Why?  Bug 496561 is *identical* (except for the 'originally filed' line).  There has clearly been an accidental double-post, and as bug 496561 has a lot more discussion this one should be resolved as a duplicate of that.  

If you want to resolve bug 496561 as a dupe of bug 493151 then fine, but that is the wrong resolution for this bug.