450558 - Previously read RSS feeds remain in "Awesome Bar" after clearing all private data

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 439129

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Adrian Wong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

After you read a story from an RSS feed, then clear all your private data, the History (in sidebar or library) is completely clear (good), but the RSS feed you read can still be found in the autocomplete drop-down box of the location bar. The story has not been bookmarked, as evidenced by the absence of a "star" in the urlbar drop-down box, so that's not why it's there.

Also, reading RSS feeds in Firefox (which are saved as Live Bookmarks) will show the same problem. In a typical Firefox 2, when you open a RSS feed in your bookmarks, an icon will be loaded for the specific RSS feed. But after clearing all the history, those history and cache files in Firefox will be deleted, including all the data and icon in the RSS feeds that you've viewed previously.

However in Firefox 3, after viewing some RSS feeds in the bookmarks, clearing all private data (with all the available options selected in Tools > Clear Private Data), the icons for the previously-viewed feeds are still there. Plus, those previously read RSS feeds can also be found in the Location Bar (Awesome Bar) too, even after clearing all private data repetitively.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create clean new "test" profile in Profile Manager.
2. Click on first story on Latest Headlines RSS in toolbar.
3. Hit Ctrl-Shift-Del (to clear private data).
4. Clear the location bar and hit Alt-Down (or type "rss"). Note: You will see the story you read still there in the drop-down box.
5. Ctrl-H: History sidebar will be (correctly) empty. Note: It proves that Firefox doesn't remove history of previously read RSS feeds.
Actual Results:  
Firefox managed to clean all private data, however, previously read RSS feeds are not cleared. And as you read more RSS stories, it will continue to accumulate in this way in the location bar drop-down box, but not in the history. And if you have RSS feeds of a website (with favicons) in Firefox's bookmarks tab, you'll find the icons loaded for those previously read RSS feeds still present, even after clearing all private data.

Expected Results:  
Just like a typical Firefox 2, the history (and also its location bar history) and the icons loaded for the specific RSS feeds are supposed to be cleared completely after clearing all the private data. After clearing, read RSS feeds shouldn't show up in the location bar and show icons in the bookmarks.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv