Closed Bug 1350018 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Uninstalling WebExtensions extension does not remove extension data

Categories

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
WebExtensions
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
50 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1213990

People

(Reporter: alexeiatyahoodotcom+mzllbgzll, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

When you uninstall a WebExtensions extension, the extension's data (chrome.storage.local, probably other stuff) is not removed. Reinstalling the extension picks up the old data, instead of starting from scratch.

This is breaks user expectations and makes it difficult to reset an extension without resetting the entire profile.

Also note that uninstalling an extension in Chrome, does properly clean up all of the extension's data.


Actual results:

The extension's data hangs around.


Expected results:

The extension's data should be removed.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Toolkit → WebExtensions
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