Closed Bug 417737 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Browsing History still there after clearing private data.

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: st0ffeltierchen, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3

When checking "Browsing History" at "Clear Private Data" (Ctrl + Shift + Del) and clearing it, the Browsing History is still there.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ctrl + Shift + Del, clear Browsing History.
2. and again.
3. and again.
Actual Results:  
The Browsing History is still there.

Expected Results:  
Cleared the Browsing History.
Where are you looking to check for browsing history?  In the sidebar?  In the History Menu?  in the location bar?
If you say 'location bar', then you're not seeing the history, but the bookmarks in that list. See bug 417236.
I can confirm this with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008032505 Minefield/3.0b5pre

Clearing "Browsing History" - several times even.
Goto View > Sidebar > History still shows all sites visited. Limit set to 7 days.
Shouldn't the severity be set higher, since it concerns privacy?

Sorry for the spam.
I'm using current Nightly builds on OS X.

When I do the keyboard shortcut, or the selection of the CPD from the Tools menu, it does clear the History pull-down menu.

What is frustrating for me is that it doesn't clear the URL history of typed or visited locations such that starting to type in the address bar reveals recent browsing history.

unless this is platform specific, it appears this one is Resolved / Works for Me and perhaps I need to file a separate bug for my concern?
WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008042806 Minefield/3.0pre

Perhaps a patch was created already?

Does the problem still occur by anyone else? if not i think you should mark it FIXED
Firefox 2.0.0.12: It seems to work OK now. If I display the history side bar and clear private data (History), everything is gone from the history sidebar.
WFM on 2008042506. And I can't reproduce comment #6 on WinXP.
The browsing history is still unclearable in Firefox 3 Beta5. This is a serious privacy issue.
This is still not fixed in RC2
Component: History → Bookmarks & History
QA Contact: history → bookmarks
Seems to be working, please reopen if you can reproduce this on a fresh profile http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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