Closed Bug 576845 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Session data does not expire if Firefox is killed

Categories

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Session Restore
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 345345

People

(Reporter: zach, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100624 CentOS/3.6-8.el5.centos Firefox/3.6.4 FirePHP/0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100624 CentOS/3.6-8.el5.centos Firefox/3.6.4 FirePHP/0.4

I discovered that session cookies and sessionStorage in javascript does not clear if the browser is forceably closed (For example by a kill -9 or the like). 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a window set a session cookie, or put some data in the sessionStorage object,
2. Kill the browser (Kill -9)
3. open the window again check cookies or session storage. 
Actual Results:  
Session data is still there.

Expected Results:  
It should be cleared
That's because session restore restores everything, including session cookies. That's on purpose, so you can continue what you were doing.

For security, it doesn't happen with cookies that are created in https websites.

Discussion in bug 530594
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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