1656312 - Console command history from Private Browsing session is not cleared

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1576907

(DevTools :: Console, defect, P3)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a Private window
2. Launch Web Developer Tools
3. Got to Console tab
4. Write anything ("blablabla")
5. Open a regular browser window
6. Launch Web Developer Tools, Console tab
7. Press the "up" arrow on the keyboard

Actual results:

The console shows the last entry ("blablabla")

Expected results:

Commands issues on Private window should not be shown. This is unlike bookmarks or downloads, that users expect to be kept.

Comment 1

[Clara Guerrero ( Need Info Brindusa Tot Please)]

Hi,
Thanks for the details. I was able to reproduce on windows10 pro, and Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS , on the following versions

release 79.0
beta, 80.0b4 (64-bit)
nightly 81.0a1 (2020-08-05) (64-bit)

I will move this over to a component so developers can take a look over it. If is not the correct component please feel free to change it to an appropriate one.

Thanks for the report.

Best regards, Clara.

Comment 2

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Comment 3

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Potentially also a duplicate of 1576907

Comment 5

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Tim: do you want to track this from the "Private Browsing" side, too, or leave it as a DevTools bug?

Comment 6

[Tim Huang[:timhuang]]

I think this is a mixed issue between devtools and private browsing. The code fix should be on the devtools side. Given this, I think the component should still be in Devtools/Console. But it would be good if we can also track this for Private Browsing.