1878603 - Client-Side Storage folder ("private") is not deleted after Private Mode termination

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1878577

(Core :: Storage: IndexedDB, defect)

Description

[solmontea98]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/121.0.0.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Set browser.privatebrowsing.autostart preference to true (At about:config)

2. Restart Browser

3. browse any web site that utilize client-side storage (ex) youtube)

4. Terminate Firefox Browser

Actual results:

Private folder where client-side storage data (cache api, indexeddb) during the private session is stored, is not deleted until next Firefox browser opens.
(path : %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles[User Profile]\storage\private)

This occurs same in latest Firefox (v122.0), firefox nightly (v124.0a1), Firefox developer edition (v123.0b6)

Expected results:

The private folder should be deleted after the private session is terminated.
It is deleted fine when browser.privatebrowsing.autostart preference is set false.

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Privacy: Anti-Tracking' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[solmontea98]

I think i can close this issue as another reporter already uploaded an issue at Bugzilla. (Bug 1878577)

May i click "Resolve as Duplicate" at the bottom of this page?

Comment 3

[Tom Schuster (MoCo)]

Go ahead. Thank you for you report.

Comment 4

[solmontea98]

Your welcome. Thanks!

Comment 6

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Sorry for the burst of bugspam: filter on tinkling-glitter-filtrate
Adding reporter-external keyword to security bugs found by non-employees for accounting reasons