1774115 - Ctrl+Shift+T brings up deleted history

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 493124

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[am798odo]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:101.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/101.0

Steps to reproduce:

Browse the web as you would. Then delete your history. And then, hit Ctrl+Shift+T multiple times

Actual results:

The deleted history started to open one by one

Expected results:

Deleted history shouldn't have been retrieved. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature. I don't know if this can be rectified by disabling cache but that's not an ideal solution right??

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Bookmarks & History' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[am798odo]

Any updates on this??

Comment 3

[Paul Zühlcke [:pbz]]

I assume that the ability to restore tabs remains, because the SessionStore isn't cleared when clearing history. How are you clearing the history? Could you provide a list of steps or a screenshot?
Thanks!

Comment 4

[am798odo]

I clear history by hitting Ctrl+Shift+H and Del.
Another interesting thing is that will bug/feature also happens in incognito mode too.

Comment 5

[Paul Zühlcke [:pbz]]

By deleting sites via the Library window you're only clearing history entries. Other data stored about the site, such as session history, remains. I'll move this back to Bookmarks & History for folks decide if they want to support this use-case. That is, clearing domains from session store when items are deleted from history.

As a workaround you can also clear items via the context menu "forget about this site": https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox#w_remove-a-single-website-from-your-history
Note that this will remove all data associated with the site, including passwords.

Comment 6

[am798odo]

Ok, thanks. But isn't there any better way to do this other than clearing everything??
I mean I want to delete just the history, not cookies and other things.

Comment 7

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:mak, could you have a look please?

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Comment 8

[Monica Chiorean]

Issue reproduces on Win10x64 using Firefox build 103.0(20220718155818), marking as New.