295705 - Add an option to automatically clear cache and/or history on browser shutdown

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Marc Croteau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I'm basically looking for an implementation of the solution to bug #11008 but in
Firefox instead of the Mozilla Suite.

There's a great extension that does that (Paranoia Button -
http://downloads.mozdev.org/cdn/x/x.xpi), but you need to press a button. If
that feature could be added as a default option to Firefox, it would be greatly
appreciated by many users.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Tools - Options - Privacy
2. Search for checkboxes to "empty on shutdown" for each individual options
3. No such options

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Have one checkbox per privacy setting to automatically clear the ones that are
selected when the user closes his browser.

Not having this option can lead to serious exposure of private data and hence,
reduce Firefox' ability to properly handle user privacy.

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050526
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005052610

WFM

In the current trunk builds that will become Firefox 1.1 Sanatise options have
been added.

This is either Dupe/WFM/Fixed not sure which.

In future please use trunk builds before filling bugs.

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050526
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005052616
Fixed by bug 274712