1167921 - Clear Private Data from URL Bar History useless because Autocomplete data will not be deleted

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1621445

(SeaMonkey :: Autocomplete, defect)

Description

[moz-bugs-2017]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1
Build ID: 20150321194901



Actual results:

I have the Location Bar History checked under Clear Private Data.  When the browser is opened again, and I type a URL that I have been to before, SeaMonkey shows a drop-down of locations in the location bar that match the URL being typed.



Expected results:

I expected the URL locations be to be erased.

Comment 1

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Partially reproducible with EN-US SeaMonkey 2.33.1 (inactive German Language pack)  Gecko/20100101 Build 20150321194901 (Default Theme) on German WIN7 64bit. I used a test porfile (not used very often) for my test. 

When I exit form SM I become asked whether I really want to delete all that stuff, and when I reopen location bar history is empty, no entries shown when I click on down-arrow at right end of URL bar. And nothing else is promised in HELP.

BUT:
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a) This deletion is rather useless for granting privacy because Autocomplete for this URL bar will show lots of entries after I have typed first character.
b) so it should be discussed whether there should be an additional option also to delete autocomplete information for URL bar
c) no DUPs found with <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamed&namedcmd=1167921DUPs&list_id=12274310>

Comment 3

[Michael Pagano]

I can confirm that autocomplete data is not cleared. I'm using a Xubuntu Linux 64-bit Seamonkey installation (build ID: 20160109003001).

Comment 4

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Localtion bar history and Browser history should clear now. Keep in mind that user typed urls are in the location bar history and the browser history.