469961 - "Clear my private data when I close Firefox" does not clear anything

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 470348

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Matt Hallett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2

I have "Clear my private data when I close Firefox" ticked. When I close Firefox, the window comes up and I clear my entire history. 

When I reload Firefox, my history is still there. 

If I manually clear my private data, my history is deleted as it should be.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to Tools > Options > Privacy and check the "Clear my private data when I close Firefox" option
2. Browse the web
3. Close Firefox, wait for popup, clear data
4. Reopen Firefox and check History dropdown. For me, its all still there
Actual Results:  
When I reopened Firefox, my history was still there

Expected Results:  
My history should not be there!

Only a couple of extensions - FireFTP, DownloadHelper and Adblock Plus, and British English Dictionary. Default theme.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

and disabling those extensions (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode) does change anything?

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

If you click on settings near "Clear my private data when I close Firefox" is Visited Pages enabled? Does change anything if you enable "Ask me before clearing private data"?

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

in my previous comment i meant "if you *disable* ask me before..."

Comment 4

[Ian]

I have seen something odd

handtyped url's are not cleared from location bar with auto Clear Private Data on exit but that Ctrl-Shift-Del does clear them.

First noticed a week or 2 back but couldn't get anyone to confirm it.

More here - not just me
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=985705&p=5253295#p5253295

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I have seen something odd
> 
> handtyped url's are not cleared from location bar with auto Clear Private Data
> on exit but that Ctrl-Shift-Del does clear them.

only handtyped? so is something cleared?
And those appear in history sidebar as well, right?

Comment 6

[Ian]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20081217 Minefield/3.2a1pre ID:20081217171419

I checked to make sure and I was wrong, not just handtyped, called up 2 from bookmarks
http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=historyscreenshotbo1.png
http://img394.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotclearrecenthihu1.png

but entries still there after restart.

Ctrl-Shift-Del got rid of them

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> called up 2 from bookmarks
> http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=historyscreenshotbo1.png
> http://img394.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotclearrecenthihu1.png

what do you mean by "called up 2 from bookmarks", are those bookmarks?

Comment 8

[Ian]

Yes they are bookmarks

Comment 9

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

bookmarks and livemark children won't disappear from locationbar, that is expected, however what makes a bug is having any item in History Sidebar after clearing private data on shutdown (with a blank start page obviously). So do you see that?

Comment 10

[Ian]

Yes

Comment 11

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

bug 470348 should be the solution

Comment 12

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Since Ian hasn't commented back on this bug for 4 months now and the parent bug is in a verified FIXED state, I'm going to move this to verified and remove the qawanted keyword.