1516359 - Clear Recent History fails for non-admin account

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: Data Sanitization, defect, P3)

Description

[joe]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Steps to reproduce:

Windows 7 Pro + SP1 + updates
Firefox 64.0

In a (regular) _limited user account_

1) Open Firefox and go to any website
go to another website
go to another website
go to another website

History menu --> Clear Recent History
The settings are:
  everything
  all boxes are checked
  (browsing & download history, active logins,
   form & search history, cookies, cache,
   site preferences, offline website data)
Click "clear now"
File --> exit

Now run ccleaner.  It displays the following:

(advanced report view):
  Firefox - internet cache        5,650KB  104 files
  Firefox - cookies                 256KB    1 files
  Firefox - session                  22KB    2 files
  Firefox - saved form information  192KB    1 files

ccleaner found and cleared all the above.
** Nothing was cleared when FF Clear Recent History ran. **
The above is 100% consistent.
It was present in previous versions of FF that I have used.

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In the same (regular) _limited user account_

2) Open Firefox using "_run as amininstrator_"
and go to any website
go to another website
go to another website
go to another website

History menu --> Clear Recent History
The settings are all the same as above
Click "clear now"
File --> exit

Now run ccleaner.  It displays the following:

(advanced report view):
  Cleaning complete
  0 bytes removed

** When FF is run as admin (in a regular limited
    user account), Clear Recent History works correctly.


Actual results:

Clear Recent History fails when FF is run in a regular user account with normal permissions.

It works correctly when run as admin.


Expected results:

Clear Recent History should run correctly in all cases.

Comment 1

[joe]

1) History menu
2) Clear Recent History
3) click Clear Now

The bottom lines on the History menu are _now_ greyed out.
That indicates that FF _thinks_ that it deleted things.
Except that ccleaner shows that is not true.

This appears like it might be some kind of permissions problem.

What would prevent FF from deleting things in its own (limited) user account?

Comment 2

[joe]

Clear Recent History fails when using an admin account also.
I suppose that's because when FF is opened it's just using regular permissions.

Comment 3

[joe]

I disabled all 5 add-ons.  CRH still fails.

Comment 4

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Seems odd that we can save the data but not delete it. Is it possible it's marked deleted in the sqlite databases but ccleaner finds the marked-deleted entries because we couldn't "vacuum" the table for some reason when a non-admin? That wouldn't apply to the HTTP cache though.